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Happy Independence Day! Let 'John Adams' provide the ceremonial reading Instead, I recommend re-watching the moment of independence from HBO's 2008 miniseries,
John Adams. As the representatives of the original colonies ponder separation from Great Britain, the political fire-breathing is over and the celebration is a long
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John Adams (unlike his son a real Founding Father), urged his fellow citizens to celebrate the glorious Fourth by going out and having a blast — literally, since among the forms of observance he urged
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John Adams wrote to his wife, Abigail, in 1776 that the date of America's independence "ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade ... bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other," he probably had no
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