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Overrated & Underrated

July 2024
1min read

Is the newly beloved John Adams perhaps too beloved? Should Bob Dylan leave at his own chosen speed? What were all those “cavaliers” in GWTW actually fighting for? And was Joe given the benefit of a few too many jolts? Our fourth annual survey reshuffles the deck of greatness.

Adams Admiral Airplane Baseball Player Biography or Autobiography Film Director Folk Hero “Golden Age” TV Show Jazz Musician Joke Mayor Movie Classic National Economic Threat Ocean Liner Outlaw Photographer Prizefighter Robber Baron Social-Protest Movement Sports Tradition World’s Fair

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