John Adams

John Adams is mad as hell and can't take it anymore

adamg — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:24:36 -0400

I decided to start blogging from the grave due to the preponderance of mistruths and inaccuracies that have spread across the people by virtue of biographical books and television series. It appears that a host of lecherous pundits and writers have jumped on the John Adams bandwagon. Even in the grave, these hangers-on are annoying and aggravating. So, good people, I have decided to enter the Blogesphere, as i believe it is called, not to correct the inaccuracies of what has been written about me, but to comment on what is happening now. ...

His phone call with Giamatti. However, he seems strangely fascinated by the dealings of high-tech companies. You would think that would be more Franklin's bailiwick.

Via Bijan.

While John was away ...

adamg — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:01:32 -0400

J.L. Bell fills us in on the goings on in the Adams household whilst John was off in Europe.

There, there, neither do we

adamg — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:34:00 -0400

Like sci-fi fans who delight in finding continuity errors in Star Trek episodes, history buffs are enjoying themselves tremendously picking apart HBO's John Adams mini-series, including a sequence involving smallpox, which forced J.L. Bell to admit:

I must confess that I don't know my pus that well.

Sticking up for the good name of John Hancock

adamg — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:01:31 -0400

J.L. Bell reports that while the upcoming HBO mini-series on our own John Adams might be riveting, possibly the most riveting scene of all never happened: A royal customs agent was not tarred and feathered here by a mob acting on the orders of John Hancock (although there was an actual tarring and feathering a year later; Adams represented a defendant in that case, which involved a ship that had been seized from Hancock).

Why we should really be celebrating today

adamg — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 09:32:11 -0400

J.L. Bell quotes from the correspondence of John Adams to prove that the Declaration of Independence was actually signed July 2.