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“Well, posterity, you will never know how much it cost us to preserve your freedom. I only hope that you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it.” - - - John Adams These are the closing sentences of the 7-part HBO TV miniseries on the life of John Adams . The second President's words are very relevant for our times. We are...
eWeek Posted on: Wednesday, 23 July 2008, 12:00 CDT QUINCY - The Boston Landmarks Orchestra will perform a free concert inspired by one of the founding fathers in Adams National Historic Park on Thursday. … Read the full article here
QUINCY - The Boston Landmarks Orchestra will perform a free concert inspired by one of the founding fathers in Adams National Historic Park on Thursday. Charles Ansbacher commissioned "John Adams: The Voice Heard Round the World" specifically for children ages 8 to 12.
"My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived." That, of course, was John Adams, first Vice President and second President of the United...
Yesterday I quoted novelist Laurie Halse Anderson ’s question about whether John Adams actually wrote about 1777 as “the year of the hangman.” I quoted Adams’s words from over a decade later indicating that unspecified, untraceable “ Tories ” had said that 1777 “had three gallowses in it, meaning the three sevens.” However, Adams didn’t write “the year of the hangman,” and neither did anyone else I...
My wife and I are making our way through the HBO film, John Adams, and we are thoroughly enjoying it. I am particularly impressed with episode 2 which covers the push towards independence. The writers did an excellent job of...
Boston 1775 reader Laurie Halse Anderson , author of Fever 1793 and the upcoming Chains , just wrote to me: All kinds of books quote [ John] Adams as calling 1777 “the year of the hangman,” but I can’t find anyone who cites a primary source document so I can a) verify it and b) put it in context with whatever else he was writing. Do you have a clue about where this one comes from? Laurie hit on a mystery...
Early American history - pre-independence - is a bit of a closed book to me, but a period I find fascinating nevertheless. So it's exciting to learn that HBO's seven-part mini-series tracking the influence of John Adams on American Independence - which has recently received no fewer than 23 Emmy award nominations - will be coming to More4 in September. Click through for more details and to see the...
So, I was reading one of the many biographies on John Adams this past weekend when I came across the word "plenipotentiary." What a cool word! I will admit that I didn't know right away what this word actually meant. But with the help of a friend (who teaches English), we soon figured out that the word must mean something like "full powers." Anyway, in case you did not already know this, one of John...
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You may have seen a little feature in New York Magazine called The Backlash Report. On a sine curve, they plot those things that are getting huge press, those things...
While accepting the Television Critics Association Award for Outstanding Miniseries for John Adams, executive producer Tom Hanks was thankful that the TCA Awards are not televised due to his random, somewhat dirty humor. After attending Saturday night's ceremony, I feel...
How much do TV critics love "Mad Men"? Quite a lot, as if you couldn't tell from the reviews. The AMC drama won three awards from the Television Critics Association on Saturday night in Beverly Hills, Calif. The drama about...
John Adams is at it again. No, not the dead one, but the Brian Davis supporter in Mazeppa, who writes frequent letters and posts (allegedly) as "Patriot" at the Rochester Post Bulletin. His latest missive in the Red Wing Republican...
Senator Jesse Helms, who like John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on the Fourth of July, was the authentic voice of conservatism for three decades. He was a role-model of an incorruptible public official who adhered to principle despite the pressures that surround those with political power, and he gave us a standard by which others can be measured. Jesse Helms was elected five times as U.S. Senator...
