<p><span class="deck"> On a government surveying party in the Pacific Northwest eighty-five years ago, nothing was more valuable than a sense of humor. Topographer Alfred Downing had one that happily showed in his sketches</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck">Should John Adams, Ebbets Field, the 60s, and Tocqueville be knocked off their pedestals? Are Ben Franklin and Bob and Ray far greater than you ever imagined? Our second annual survey asks experts in every field what reputation is the most inflated and what’s most underappreciated.</span></p>
