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John Adams
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Series (with order)
Canonical Title
John Adams
Original publication date
2001-05-22
People/Characters
John Adams
Abigail Adams
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804)
George Washington
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Benjamin Franklin
Samuel Adams
Elbridge Gerry
John Quincy Adams
George III, King of the United Kingdom
Important places
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
London, England, UK
Paris, France
New York, New York, USA
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Braintree, Massachusetts, USA (later Quincy)
The Netherlands
Important events
American Revolution (1775|1783)
Federalist Era (U.S. history, 1789|1801)
Related movies
John Adams (2008 | tt0472027)
Awards and honors
Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year (2001.5|Non-fiction (1), 2001)
Pulitzer Prize (Biography or Autobiography, 2002)
Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award (2002)
Douglas Dillon Book Award (2001)
New York Times bestseller (Nonfiction, 2001)
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Ambassador Book Award (2002.2|Biography/Autobiography, 2002)
Salon Book Award (Nonfiction, 2001)
ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound (2004.5|History, 2004)
Epigraph
We live, my dear soul, in an age of trial. What will be the consequence I know not. - John Adams to Abigail Adams, 1774
Dedication
For our sons David, William, and Geoffrey
First words
In the cold, nearly colorless light of a New England winter, two men on horseback traveled the coast road below Boston, heading north.
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It could have been his epitaph.
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Mitchell, Rob
Schama, Simon
Graff, Henry F.
Futter, Ellen V.
Fichtner, Margaria
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Brinkley, Douglas
Maier, Pauline
Yoder, Edwin M., Jr.
McGrory, Mary
Wood, Gordon S.
Kakutani, Michiko
Arana, Marie
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