ATLAS OF INDEPENDENCE: John Adams and the American Revolution

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Details how John Adams argued with power, passion, and persuasive force of reason why America needed to take the extraordinary step to break from the British Empire and set up an independent nation. Urged his contemporaries into the unknown future, but his efforts came at tremendous cost: long separations from his beloved children and wife, Abigail, who forged for herself a role as long-distance political counselor even as she managed affairs on the family farm in a way nearly unprecedented for 18th-century America. Contains 136 images and 1 map.