[rellimpank]

---another take on the latest boob tube historical "discovery"--

[Disturbin]

And, dammit, cousin Sam takes all of the attention courtesy of his beer.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

John Adams boned himself as a President; otherwise, he would have been as highly remembered and regarded as his cousin, Samuel Adams. John Adams was far too much the political animal.

[Corin Stormhands]

I take it you’re not watching. It’s a well done series based on an excellent book.

[devane617]

Our history is rich with stories. It would keep HWood busy for years, and years if only they would look.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

But he also gave America the Sedition Act of 1798, which made it a crime to criticize the federal government or its officers. A revolutionary who betrays his ideals has little right to complain about his treatment by history.

True enough.

[mountainlion]

This guy needs to read just a little of what Adams really said and not what some drug induced dream told him.

[Artemis Webb]

I will never give HBO another chance to revise history since I saw their dramatization of the Chicago Seven trial. In that the judge was totally evil and the Chicago Seven were the greatest guys ever. In fact at the very end of the show the real Chicago Seven rushed onto the set to shake the hands of the actors who had played them.

As for John Adams and this column it was John Adams who by pure force of will ramrodded independence through The Continental Congress.

[Hoodlum91]

Having grown up in Mass. and living for a while in Weymouth and Quincy (the Adams’ hometowns), I find it a little funny that he’s considered “obscure”.

[wideawake]

Good thing Quillen is a columnist and not a high school history teacher.

[Liberty Valance]

So far, HBO and Tom Hanks have done an excellent job bringing these great historic characters to life. Most will never read the book this mini-series is based on or remember the short generalized version in their high school textbooks. These were great men who risked all they had to bring Independence and Freedom to a young America.

[Clemenza]

Adams has received all the credit he deserved, a smart man with poor social skills who was ill-equipped to be president.

If anyone of the founders is OVERRATED it is that Proto-Limo Liberal Jacobin symphathizer Jefferson. Cheering on European radicalism from his huge plantation. The fact that he died nearly bankrupt (from excessive traveling and wine collecting, among other things) really provides insight into the temperment/fiscal responsability of TJ.

Hamilton, Washington, and Madison are my faves. The only good thing the AntiFederalists gave us was the Bill of Rights.

[AmericaUnite]

I’m sure your expertise is called for here.

[Dysart]

mark

[GQuagmire]

So far a good miniseries.Better than the usual mindless stuff on TV these days(Reality shows,etc).Can you imagine if the original framers of this country were dropped into the 21st century what their reactions would be.I look forward to watching the rest.

A disclaimer;I am a descendant of John Adams,or so I’ve been told by one old family members who did the research back in the day.

[Vision]

Thanks to the marketing power of HBO, John Adams is no longer the forgotten American revolutionary — at least for a week.

Ahhh, the series runs for four weeks as far as I know.

[BibChr]

What say you?

[goldfinch]

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