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American experience (Television program)Summary: Relying heavily on the correspondence between the second president, John Adams, and his wife, Abigail Adams, this joint biography sheds light on the characters of two people who played crictical roles in the history of the United States and on the tumultuous times through which they lived. He was a participant in the Continental Congress and a wartime emissary to France as well as becoming the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JOHSummary: Volume 1 begins with a look at two of the many crises faced by George Washington during his term as America's first president. At a time when any conflict had the potential to dissolve the fragile union, Washington surrounded himself with brilliant men who were bound by their undying devotion to America, but who were often bitterly divided about how best to serve their common cause. Volume 2...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FOUIsenberg, Nancy
Summary: "John and John Quincy Adams: rogue intellectuals, unsparing truth tellers, too uncensored for their own political good. They held that political participation demanded moral courage. They did not seek popularity (and it showed). They lamented the fact that hero worship in America substituted idolatry for results, and they made it clear that they were talking about Benjamin Franklin, George...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 ISEEllis, Joseph J.
Summary: Through their correspondence, John and Abigail Adams' relationship unfolds in the context of America's birth as a nation.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 920 ADAMS, JOHN EllisEllis, Joseph J.
Summary: The Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling author of "Founding Brothers" and "His Excellency" brings America's preeminent first couple to life in a moving and illuminating narrative that sweeps through the American Revolution and the republic's tenuous early years.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 ADAMS, ABIGAIL & JOHN ELLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 ELLCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.4 ELLBrookhiser, Richard.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BROMcCullough, David G.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2001
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 ADACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ADABrookhiser, Richard.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 920 BROAbrams, Dan
Summary: 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 just a lawyer, fighting for justice in one of the most explosive murder trials of the era. On the night of March 5, 1770, shots were fired by British soldiers on the streets of Boston, killing five civilians. The Boston Massacre has often been...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press, with Harlequin Books 2020