John adams autobiography
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"For my Line . . . I commit these Memoirs fulfil writing." Can Adams autobiography, part 1, "John Adams"
From President Family Document, Massachusetts Authentic Society.
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I was incessantly employed, through the whole Fall, Winter and Spring of and in Congress during their Sittings and on Committees on mornings and Evenings, and unquestionably did more business than any other Member of that house. In the Beginning of May I procured the Appointment of a Committee, to prepare a resolution recommending to the People of the States to institute Governments. The Committee of whom I was one requested me to draught a resolve which I did and by their Direction reported it. Opposition was made to it, and Mr. Duane called it a Machine to fabricate independence but on the 15th of May it passed. It was indeed on all hands considered by Men of Understanding as equivalent to a declaration of Independence: tho a formal declaration of it was still opposed by Mr. Dickinson and his Party.1
Not long after this the three greatest Measures of all, were carried. Three Committees were appointed, One for preparing a Declaration of Independence, another for reporting a Plan of a Treaty to be proposed to France, and a third to digest a System of Articles of Confederation to be proposed to the States.—I was appointed on the Committee of Independence, and on that for preparing the form of a Treaty with France: on the Committ
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John Adams (book)
book by David McCullough
John Adams. is a biography of the Founding Father and second U.S. PresidentJohn Adams, written by the popular American historian David McCullough, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. It was adapted into the 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 calls "one of the mos