books and TV

still loving John Adams -- and being entertained by hints of Jefferson, too:

Alone is his upstairs parlor at Seventh and Market, Jefferson went to work, seated in an unusual revolving Windsor chair and holding on his lap a portable writing box, a small folding desk of his own design which, like the chair, he had had specially made for him by a Philadelphia cabinetmaker.

At which point, of course, I had to put the book down and find this video:

and bless, again, Dame Maggie Smith.