“Shaker Loops” … “Hoodoo Zephyr” … “Short Ride in a Fast Machine” — the titles alone of John Adams’ musical compositions suggest he’d make a lively, witty prose writer. That proves to be the case in ...
Picture a fiery Massachusetts lawyer risking his career to defend British soldiers after the Boston Massacre, and drafting the Declaration of Independence just six years later. That was John Adams: a ...
In 1797, John Adams became the second American president, having won election by three votes in the Electoral College. Although George Washington had set a momentous precedent by relinquishing power — ...
In 1819, 18 years after leaving the White House, John Adams fretted that “Mausoleums, Statues, Monuments will never be erected to me. … Panegyrical romances will never be written, nor flattering ...
John Adams was born on October 30, 1735, in Braintree, Massachusetts. His father, a farmer and deacon, hoped that Adams would enter the clergy, but his Harvard professors thought his propensity for ...
This exceedingly handsome Tom Hanks-backed production is grand in its scope and intellectually uncompromising, representing a you-won't-see-this-anywhere-else endeavor that pay TV increasingly ...
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