Event Details (U.S. National Park Service)

Fee:

Free. We look forward to seeing you at our book group! Titles are typically available at the branch one month prior to the discussion. (While stock lasts.) For more details, please call or visit your local branch.

Location:

317 W. 24 Hwy. Independence, MO 64050

Dates & Times

Date:

Thursday, July 18, 2024

Time:

2:00 PM

Duration:

1 hour

Type of Event

Partner Program

Talk

Description

This community book group, now in its seventh year, is dedicated to the memory of President Harry S Truman, who loved reading about his predecessors.

Books are available to borrow with your library card while available. All are welcome to join us!

From the publisher:

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.

In this book, New York Times bestselling authors Dan Abrams and David Fisher draw on the trial transcript, using Adams’s own words to transport readers to colonial Boston, a city roiling with rebellion, where British military forces and American colonists lived side by side, waiting for the spark that would start a war.

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