“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 ...
"The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America," wrote John Adams in a letter to his wife Abigail. In John Adams’ new Gold Rush opera, cultures clash with a ...
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 ...
The spate of interest in our nation’s second president continues as the National Endowment for the Humanities presents “John Adams Unbound,” a traveling exhibit touring 20 U.S. cities, including ...
If you have been too busy to read David McCullough’s impressive, Pulitzer Prize-winning biography “John Adams,” you may now listen to it. Simon & Schuster Audio has brought it out in two versions, and ...
This story was originally published in the Globe Magazine on Nov. 5, 2000. You’re John Adams. You take a bunch of cautious Continental Congressmen gathered to write a complaint letter, and you brow ...
HBO is taking a huge leap of faith in pro ducing a seven-part series based on David McCullough’s epic biography, “John Adams,” a subject much more PBS than HBO, when you think about it. But after ...
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 — ...
was one of the unlikeliest founding fathers, more swept up in the events of the American Revolution than out in front of them. Because of that, he's been an ideal subject for two ground-level studies ...
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