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Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
31 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
John Adams didn't enjoy traveling. He much preferred to stay home with his wife and children. But John Adams also had a dream: he wanted to see the thirteen colonies free from English rule. He wanted to see the creation of a new country -- the United States of America. John Adams did whatever was needed to make his dream come true.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xii, 652 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color map, portraits (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
A brilliant combination of literary analysis and historical detail, this masterfully written biography of the much misunderstood sixth president of the United States reveals the many sides of this forward-thinking man whose progressive vision helped shape the course of America.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 780 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 program guide (12 p.)
Description
Television mini-series that dramatizes four generations of Adamses and 150 years of American history from the birth of the Revolution through the Gilded Age. Meet John Adams, a passionate revolutionary and second president; John Quincy Adams, proud son of a famous father and sixth president; Charles Francis Adams, skillful minister to Great Britain during the Civil War; historian Henry Adams; and railroad magnate Charles Francis Adams, Jr. Going beyond...
8) Amistad
Publisher
DreamWorks
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (155 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chronicles the 1839 revolt on board the slave ship Amistad bound for America. Much of the story involves the court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt.
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 21 x 26 cm.
Description
"John Adams was an American patriot and Founding Father, and Abigail, his wife, was his most trusted adviser for more than fifty years. While John served in both Continental Congresses, Abigail managed their farm within earshot of cannon fire. She later advised her husband through amusing letters as he served as our first ambassador to Great Britain. And when John was elected America's first vice president and our second president, Abigail vowed to...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
x, 299 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
"John and Abigail Adams left a remarkable portrait of their lives together in their personal correspondence: both were prolific letter writers (although John conceded that Abigail was the more gifted), and over the years they exchanged more than twelve hundred letters. Joseph J. Ellis distills them to give us an account both intimate and panoramic; part biography, part political history, and part love story. Ellis describes their first meeting as...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 32 cm.
Description
A dual portrait of two American founding fathers shares introductions to the many ways they helped a young United States in spite of their disparate views, tracing how they overcame interpersonal differences at key points in the nation's early history.
14) Our own country
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
432 pages ; 21 cm
Author
Formats
Description
"From the great historian of the American Revolution, NYT-bestselling and Pulitzer-winning Gordon Wood, comes a majestic dual biography of two of America's most enduringly fascinating figures, whose partnership helped birth a nation, and whose subsequent falling out did much to fix its course. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams could scarcely have come from more different worlds, or been more different in temperament. Jefferson, the optimist with enough...
17) John Adams under fire: the founding father's fight for justice in the Boston Massacre murder trial
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press A part of Gale, a Cengage Company, Gale Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
469 pages (large print) cm
Description
"An expert, extremely detailed account of John Adams' finest hour."--Kirkus Reviews Honoring the 250th Anniversary of the Boston Massacre The New York Times bestselling author of Lincoln's Last Trial and host of LivePD Dan Abrams and David Fisher tell the story of a trial that would change history. History remembers John Adams as a Founding Father and our country's second president. But in the tense years before the American Revolution, he was still...
Series
Publisher
Disney Educational Productions
Pub. Date
c2009 [2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 45 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A fresh and relevant narrative about the men who led this country through change and the lives they affected, from an early idea of democracy to our first African-American President.
Author
Publisher
Audio Editions
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
7 CDs (8 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The book is a triptych, beginning with the mutiny on the Hermione and the ensuing manhunt for members of her crew. The second section recounts the arrival of a handful of mutineers in the United States, including Jonathan Robbins, before examining in depth the political crisis that engulfed John Adams and the Federalist Party. The final three chapters focus on the election of 1800 and the protracted consequences of Robbins's martyrdom during the years...
Author
Series
Rush Revere volume 5
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
257 pages : colour illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"Rush Revere and his friends head back in time to the early days of our independent nation to watch the Founding Fathers create the leadership we needed for our future."--back cover
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