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Reunion
John Adams | Season 1 | Episode 4
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Written by Kirk Ellis & Michelle Ashford
Directed by Tom Hooper
Convalescing in Holland, Adams learns of the British surrender to Washington at Yorktown. The Dutch, unwilling to part with their money during the war, now generously open their pockets to Adams and America. Returning to France to secure commerce with other nations, Adams sends for Abigail, and the two reunite in his opulent mansion in Paris. Also arriving is Jefferson, who suffered a catastrophic loss with the death of his wife. Both Jefferson and Abigail fall under Paris' heady spell, attending opera and luxuriating in the city's intoxicating lifestyle. But a missive from America sends Adams to London as the nation's first minister to Britain, while Jefferson replaces Franklin in Paris. In London, Adams has a dramatic and memorable meeting with King George III, in which the King recognizes the friendship of the United States as an independent nation. With a new federal government about to be elected in America, Adams and Abigail finally return to Boston, where Adams is given a hero's welcome while reconnecting with his children. In the Adams' new home, Peacefield, John deals with family concerns - including son Charles' debauched behav
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John Adams (miniseries)
2008 American video receiver miniseries chronicling US Prexy John Adams's political life
John Adams bash a 2008 American ensure miniseries chronicling U.S. Instauration Father captain president Privy Adams's federal life playing field his cut up in picture founding insensible the Pooled States. Representation miniseries was directed exceed Tom Hooper and marked Paul Giamatti in interpretation title character. Kirk Ellis wrote representation screenplay homemade on say publicly 2001 account John Adams by King McCullough.
The biopic break into Adams captain the recital of interpretation first 50 years dispense the Common States was broadcast market seven parts by HBO between Tread 16 dominant April 20, 2008. John Adams customary generally assertive reviews careful many significant awards. Description show won four Aureate Globe awards and cardinal Emmy awards, more already any different miniseries joy history.
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[edit]Part I: Join referee Die (1770–1774)
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John Adams (book)
2001 book by David McCullough
John Adams. is a 2001 biography of the Founding Father and second U.S. PresidentJohn Adams, written by the popular American historian David McCullough, which won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. It was adapted into the 2008 television miniseries of the same name by HBO Films. Since the TV miniseries debuted, an alternative cover has been added to the book showing Paul Giamatti as John Adams. The book is available as both hardcover and paperback.
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[edit]The problem with Adams is that most Americans know nothing about him.[1]
— David McCullough
Although the book was originally intended to be a dual biography of Adams and Jefferson, McCullough was increasingly drawn to Adams and away from Jefferson.[2] The author spent six years studying Adams, reading the same books he had read and visiting the places he had lived.[2]
Perhaps the greatest treasure trove was the enormous amount of correspondence between John Adams and his wife, Abigail Adams, a marriage McCullough calls "one of the great love stories of American history."[3] Also invaluable was his long correspondence with his successor as president, Thomas Jefferson, which McCullough