Saturday, April 17, 2010
John Adams Book
My experience reading the book John Adams has been very interesting. I am so new at all the foundation of this country and, considering myself not well informed about the entire history of the USA. I have been amazed on how a dedicated man John Adams was to this country. He really worked hard through out his education at school. I really felt happy when I read that he even became an educator like all of us. I got very impressed with the fact that he needed to leave his family so many times to take care of the business of creating a new country. Abigail was such a wonderful wife and very prepared to all she went through. She was ready to "fly to the woods" and follow Adam's advice. It is very interesting to know the soldiers slept in her kitchen floor so many times as her home was close to the road. She witnessed the revolution through her naked eyes. What a powerful statement in the book when it says that he read aloud from Cicero's Orations to find confort even if "one undertood non of the meaning"(pg 45). The contribution mentioned in the beginning of the book related to this specific reading show how inteligent he was in conforting him emotionally through this religious act of "reading'. Very interesting! I trully believe that John Adams was very aware of his surroundings, more than we can picture in the book. That is all for now I hope somebody can give me some feedback in my blog it has being very nice to learn all this in such a short period of time.
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There is also a DVD documentary mini series based on this book. I borrowed the DVD's from a neighbor so I am not sure where it is available. The series is 8-10 hours long. I would recommend reading the book first, but it has been interesting to see the similarities and differences between the book the the HBO version.
ReplyDeleteI am really amazed at Adam's fortitude and determination. He really did spend most of his life in service to his country. I wonder if there is anyone currently in politics who is as selfless in service as Adams was. I know he wasn't perfect, but I think he was absolutely amazing!
ReplyDeleteI am getting to the end of this wonderful book. I wanted to post about the "war hawks" of the late 1700's. I am really interested in the similarities between the push for war and the sense of patriotism of 1797 and the big push for war in Afghanistan and Iraq after 9/11.
ReplyDeleteI loved how the Republicans of 1797 pushed for Adams to reveal the messages from France, thinking that Adams was hiding information. Then when the messages revealed what a terrible thing France was up to, they blamed Adams for bungling the whole affair.
Poor Adams, can't seem to get anything right.