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Indlæser... John Adams Under Fire: The Founding Father's Fight for Justice in the Boston Massacre Murder Trial (2020)af David Fisher, Dan Abrams (Forfatter)
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Clearly much research went into this book but boy, it was rather hard to follow. So many names are introduced as the witnesses it got confusing and muddled. I don't think we needed so much detail. Telling the story is far more important. ( ) 4/5 Dan Abrams & David Fisher do a great job in showing that no matter the political climate. Truth and the law should matter. When we deviate and pick and chose what laws are worth imposing our institutions crumble. Sadly we don’t have leaders like John Adams anymore who could stand up to a mob even when he agrees with them politically. He could and would do the right thing no matter the polling. Best quote: “If the legal system could be bent to achieve a desired political outcome any liberty that came of it would be worthless.” Dan Abrams & David Fisher I thought the book was quite decent, and covered a much-overlooked part of the cause of Boston's sparking the American Revolution. Some of the dialogue was needlessly hard to follow. Overall worth reading, though hardly a classic. It took a while to read because I was "switch-reading" with another book. A mob, inflamed by England’s stranglehold of Boston in 1770, attacks English soldiers who fire their guns & kill five. Did they commit murder or was it self-defense? John Adams-a true patriot-surprisingly defends the soldiers. There are important firsts for America & much on the foundation of legal principles. Unfortunately most of the book is straight from the trial transcript, which was detailed, monotonous, & repetitive. Interesting but dry. I couldn’t quite finish this one. I believe most Americans know that The Boston Massacre was the result of the aggressive behavior of a mob of Bostonians. And knowing that you know the John Adams successfully defended the British Soldiers. You know the background, beyond that the book contains essentially the testimony of every witness in the trial. It got a little tedious. Well written, but I lost interest and moved on. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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. No library descriptions found. |
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