John Adams

Thomas Jefferson Proved That Every Vote, Indeed, Does Count

Jerry Waxman | Posted 10.24.2008 | Home

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Jerry Waxman

I've been blessed over the years to have worked with some incredible talent on stage, whose ability to communicate holds me in awe. J. D. Sutton is a ...

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Culture Zohn: Doctor Atomic: Opera Goes Nuclear

Patricia Zohn | Posted 10.15.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Doctor Atomic, Peter Sellars, Los Alamos, Satyagraha, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Nuclear Energy, John Adams, Metroplitan Opera, Nuclear Bombs, Penny Woolcock, Alan Gilbert, Philip Glass, Entertainment News
Patricia Zohn

2008-10-15-zohnpull.jpg It is with a heavy heart that we leave the theater, knowing all too well its incendiary concerns are still very much with us.

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Palin's "Role of the Vice President" Gaffe: An Historical Perspective

Chris Rodda | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Vice President, Joe Biden, Vice Presidential Debate, Sarah Palin Debate, Dick Cheney, Sarah Palin, John Adams, Politics News
Chris Rodda

Palin's answers to these questions showed that she just plain doesn't know what the Constitution says about the office she's running for.

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McCain's Maverick Left Eye and a History of Presidential Infirmity

Peter J Burns | Posted 10.02.2008 | Home

Read More: Health Concerns, Depression, Sickness, John McCain, Ronald Reagan, Woodrow Wilson, George Bush, Obesity, Fdr, Harry Truman, George Washington, John Kennedy, Calivn Coolidge, Sarah Palin, John Adams, Health Records, Roosevelt, Home News
Peter J Burns

William H. Taft suffered from a condition probably most relevant to modern Americans - hyper-obesity. He weighed in at over 400 lbs. This condition caused hypersomnolence - he'd fall asleep mid-conversation, sometimes with foreign heads of state.

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What Books on America Has Sarah Palin Read?

Steve Clemons | Posted 09.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Alexander Hamilton, Harriet Tubman, George W. Bush, Founding Fathers, James Madison, Balkans, Matt Damon, Sarah Palin, Aaron Burr, Yoshiro Mori, Condleezza Rice, Constitutional Convention, American History, Middle East, Suffragists, Political Literacy, C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience, Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass, Benjamin Franklin, Robert D. Kaplan, Winston Churchill Charles De Gaulle, Books, Washington Prize, Mao Tse Tung, Thomas Jefferson, Machiavelli, Konrad Adenauer, George Washington, Tom Delay, John Adams, Eastward to Tartary, Reading, Ron Chernow, Cicero, Caucasus, Politics News
Steve Clemons

I think that if ABC has another shot at her, or if any other journalists get to spend any time on this uncertain gamble for the second highest office in the land, they should give her a book test.

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Media and Political Things to Ponder While Stuck in Traffic

Tom Alderman | Posted 09.03.2008 | Media

Read More: Mike Wallace, Aristotle, Rush Limbaugh, MSBNC, Meet the Press, Thomas Jefferson, Col. Robert McCormick, Toyota, The Daily Show, Chicago Cubs, Chris Matthews, Keith Olberman, The Middle East, Budwiser Beer, Walter Cronkite, Oprah, John Adams, Comb-Overs, Nikita Krushchev, Special Interests, Chicago Tribune, Wolf Blitzer, Media News
Tom Alderman

• If a Walter Cronkite auditioned for a major news anchor job today, he would not get on the call-back sheet. The moustache, alone, would kil...

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Emmy Nominations!

AP | LYNN ELBER | Posted 07.17.2008 | Entertainment

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LOS ANGELES — Basic cable has long been the domain of low-rent fare such as "The Real World" and "Silk Stalkings," or kids' stuff like "SpongeBo...

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A Founding Father Missed It By That Much

Patt Morrison | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: John Adams, John Adams July 2, George Washington, John Adams July 4, Independence Day, July 4th, Politics News
Patt Morrison

On July 2, 1776, the Continental Congress declared American independence. So why are we celebrating the big day on the Fourth of July?

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''The Vice President is The Only Person The President Can't Fire.''

Martin Nolan | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Alexander P. Throttlebottom, 12th Amendment, Chester Alan Arthur, Hubert H. Humphrey, Thomas Jefferson, George and Ira Gershwin, Barack Obama, Aaron Burr, Theodore Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert C. Wood, John Adams, John Tyler, Andrew Johnson, Great Society, Millard Fillmore, Hillary Clinton, Dick Cheney., Barack Obama Vice President, Vice President, Suburbia, Hillary Clinton Vice President, Alexander Hamilton Federalist Papers, Politics News
Martin Nolan

Barack Obama is pressured by Hillary Clinton to select her as VP, a mathematical question arises: why would he choose someone whom record numbers of Democrats have voted against?

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Sunday Night History

Marvin Kitman | Posted 04.10.2008 | Entertainment

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Marvin Kitman

What I liked about this John Adams is that it's not by Ken Burns.

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P.B.T.S.D.

Kate Clinton | Posted 04.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Condoleeza Rice, Condi Rice, HBO John Adams, HBO in Treatment, Obama, Election 2008, John Adams, Ptsd, John McCain, Politics News
Kate Clinton

I believe I have early onset PBTSD, Post-Bush-Traumatic Stress Disorder. My presenting symptoms of lethargy, distraction, and dissociation are compounded by Clinton Fatigue.

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Why Should Brad and Britney's Issues Dwarf the Legacy of Richard Widmark and Jules Dassin?

John Farr | Posted 04.02.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Video, Judgment at Nuremberg, Panic in the Streets, Pellicano Trial, Britney Spears, Yellow Sky, The Bedford Incident, Clark Gable, Kiss of Death, Angelina Jolie, American Cinema, George Clooney, No Way Out, Amy Winehouse, Jules Dassin, Brad Pitt, Will Ferrell, Pick Up on South Street, John Adams, The Street With No Name, Richard Widmark, Night and the City, Kate Hudson, Broken Lance, Marlon Brando, Kim Morgan, Owen Wilson, Rififi, Entertainment News
John Farr

Whatever movie Richard Widmark was in, he projected a unique quality, an innocent smirk that could spell death, either for him or someone else.

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John Adams vs Tom Jefferson = Hillary Clinton vs Barack Obama

Benjamin R. Barber | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Democracy, Sam Adams, Democratic Primary, HBO John Adams, George Washington, Superdelegates, John Adams, Pennsylvania Primary, Thomas Jefferson, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Benjamin Franklin, Politics News
Benjamin R. Barber

The birth of the American Republic was accompanied by enough controversy, bitterness, infighting and rage to sink the project before it ever got off the ground.

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John Adams: Good for McCain -- and Kerry, Dukakis

Matt Cooper | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: HBO John Adams, John McCain, Time Magazine, John Kerry, John Adams, Michael Dukakis, Barack Obama, James Poniewozik, Politics News
Matt Cooper

I know Iraq is not Colonial America and Lexington and Concord is not Fallujah and Sadr City. But a film that glorifies martial values is going to be good for the martial candidate.

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"Some Say" Ignorance Is Bliss

Kathleen Reardon | Posted 03.27.2008 | Media

Read More: Iraq War, U.S. Debt, John McCain, Poverty, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Pathological Politics, John Adams, Democracy, Media, Hillalry Clinton, Barack Obama, Privacy, Media News
Kathleen Reardon

With the obligation of inheriting the beacon of democracy nourished and protected by those who came before us, why are we allowing ourselves to be ill-served by so many in the media?

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Remember the Ladies

Marie Wilson | Posted 03.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama, Presidential Primary, Race, John Adams, Hillary Clinton, Abgail Adams, Gender, Women in Politics, HBO John Adams, Sexism, Women Running for Office, 2008 Election and Sexism, 2008 Election, 2008 Election and Gender, Politics News
Marie Wilson

Centuries have passed, but Abigail Adams' plea -- "Remember the ladies" -- resonates today, when women continue to struggle to ascend to the positions of leadership they deserve.

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John Adams: God Damn America

Steven Waldman | Posted 03.20.2008 | Politics

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Steven Waldman

Like many of the Revolutionary era, John Adams believed that if we weren't careful, God would damn us or at least withdraw his support.

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HBO to John Adams: We Think You Were a Slob

Jordan Michael Smith | Posted 03.17.2008 | Home

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Jordan Michael Smith

Unlike the critics, apparently, I liked the debut episode of the John Adams miniseries on HBO. But even I balked at having Adams portrayed by Paul Giamatti.

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Gettin' Wiggy With It

Jamie Malanowski | Posted 03.17.2008 | Entertainment

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Jamie Malanowski

Adams' and his pals should have declared that among man's unalienable rights was life, liberty, and the right to show the world his own God-given head of hair.

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Why John Adams is Cooler Than Roger Clemens

Ashleigh Banfield | Posted 03.13.2008 | Entertainment

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Ashleigh Banfield

We truly need this HBO John Adams American history lesson to permeate prime time and cut through the clutter of today's pop smear.

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'John Adams' Premiere: Talking To Paul Giamatti, Tom Hanks And David McCullough

Huffington Post | Dipayan Gupta | Posted 03.11.2008 | Entertainment

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The long-awaited HBO adaptation of David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize winning John Adams got the green light a year ago, and the seven-part mini serie...

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HBO Teams Up With US Postal Service To Promote "John Adams"

New York Times | Stuart Elliot | Posted 03.11.2008 | Media

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HBO and the Postal Service are joining forces for the first time to co-sponsor a multimillion-dollar multimedia campaign that is intended to evoke the...

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Email Is Changing the Way We Communicate and Historians Are Worried

Tom Alderman | Posted 03.05.2008 | Media

Read More: Historians, National Archives and Records Administration, Email, Spam, Thomas Jefferson, Valuable Digital Assests, Arthur Schlesinger, Text Messaging, Digital Archives, Wisconsin State Archives, Internet, John Adams, Jr., Future Generations, U.C.S.D. Super Computer Center, Nara, Media News
Tom Alderman

You can shred a document and it's gone. You can erase a tape and it's blank. You can delete your email and trash your computer but your email is alive -- somewhere, on somebody's server.

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John Adams To Mitt Romney: "Silly and Wicked"

Zephyr Teachout | Posted 12.06.2007 | Home

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Zephyr Teachout

Yesterday, Romney quoted Founding Father John Adams in his big speech on religion. But why not use some of Adams' other quotes?

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The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act

Philip Giraldi | Posted 11.26.2007 | Politics

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Philip Giraldi

One would have thought that the systematic dismantling of the Constitution would have been enough to satisfy even the most Jacobin neoconservative.

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