www.hbo.com/films/johnadams
he unitedthe states of america.
based on the pulitzer prize-winning
book
Brilliant and ambitious, honest and courageous, bold and outspoken, John Adams was a ferventpatriot whose unwavering commitment to independence guided the nation through its birth andturbulent early decades. The public and private worlds of America’s second President come tolife in an epic 7-part miniseries event based on David McCullough’s acclaimed biography.
Premieres sunday, march 16, 2008 at 8PmFollowing sundays at 9Pm
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“ People and nations are forged inthe fires of adversity.”
—John AdAms
“ Fear is the foundation of most governments.”
—John AdAms
“ The man to whom the country ismost indebted for the great measure of independence is Mr. John Adams of Boston.I call him the Atlas of American Independence.”
—RichARd stockton, new JeRsey delegAteto the continentAl congRess
“ Your prophecies … proved truer than mine; and yet fellshort of the fact, for instead of a million, the destructionof eight or ten millions of human beings has probablybeen the effect of these convulsions. I did not, in [17]89,believe they would have lasted so long, nor have cost somuch blood.”
—thomAs JeffeRson, wRiting to John AdAmsAbout the fRench Revolution
“ I look back to the early days of our acquaintance and friendship as to the days of love and innocence, and,with an indescribable pleasure, I have seen near a scoreof years roll over our heads with an affection heightenedand improved by time, nor have the dreary years of absence in the smallest degree effaced from my mindthe image of the dear untitled man to whom I gavemy heart.”
—AbigAil AdAms, wRiting to John AdAms in 1782
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his famous political cartoon—the first
in
American history—was drawn by BenjaminFranklin and published in the
Pennsylvania Gazette
on May 9, 1754. This woodcut shows a snake cut intoeight parts, each of which represents a British colonyin America. In an editorial that accompanied the cartoon,Franklin urged colonists to band together against theFrench and Indians, who were clashing with colonistsover land rights. Shortly after this cartoon waspublished, the French and Indian War began,and American and British troops joined forcesto fight against Native American and Frenchsoldiers. The cartoon was later widelyused during the American Revolution, when it took on a different meaning.Paul Revere created a version in which the snake is seen fightinga British dragon.
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