John Patrick Diggins was a professor of history at the City University of New York Graduate Center, the author of more than a dozen books on widely variant subjects in American intellectual history, and one of the leading scholars in his field.
Adams "never got to the point of playing the game at all; he lost himself in the study of it."
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