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John Adams under fire : the Founding Father's fight for justice in the Boston Massacre murder trial / Dan Abrams and David Fisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781335015921
- ISBN: 1335015922
- Physical Description: 313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : Hanover Square Press, with Harlequin Books, [2020]
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-293) and index. |
| Summary, etc.: | History remembers John Adams as a Founding Father and our country's second president. But in the tense years before the American Revolution, he was still just a lawyer, fighting for justice in one of the most explosive murder trials of the era. On the night of March 5, 1770, shots were fired by British soldiers on the streets of Boston, killing five civilians. The Boston Massacre has often been called the first shots of the American Revolution. As John Adams would later remember, "On that night the formation of American independence was born." Yet when the British soldiers faced trial, the young lawyer Adams was determined that they receive a fair one. He volunteered to represent them, keeping the peace in a powder keg of a colony, and in the process created some of the foundations of what would become United States law. |
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| Genre: | True crime stories. Biographies. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Ansonia Public Library | 973.3 ABR (Text) | 34045120759878 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Derby Neck Library | AM-REV ABR (Text) | 34046146025062 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Derby Public Library | 973.4 ABR (Text) | 34047147290036 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Douglas Library of Hebron | B ADAMS (Text) | 33400147168879 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Easton Public Library | 973.31 ABRAMS, DAN (Text) | 37777123595431 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Edith Wheeler Memorial Library - Monroe | 973.3313 ABRAMS (Text) | 34026143969728 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Hagaman Memorial Library - East Haven | 973.3 ABR (Text) | 31953148609681 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Hall Memorial Library - Ellington | 973.4409 ADAMS (Text) | 34037143315226 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Jonathan Trumbull Library - Lebanon | 973.4409 ABR (Text) | 33430141905646 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Kent Memorial Library - Suffield | 973.44 A (Text) | 32518146830453 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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