American Experience: John and Abigail Adams
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Brand: ParamountDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 120 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-01-24
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: PBS
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DVD Review: A Love Story of American History
Summary: 4 Stars
John and Abigail Adams would be considered a love story, a very plain one of a married couple working as one to help each other reach their full potential in life. The difference here is that their potential was the development of a nation. If Abigail Adams saw the greatness in her husband before he was added to the pages of American history, her husband realized that his greatness lay in the trust, counsel, and wisdom of his wife.
As a delegate from Massachusetts, John Adams was a blunt man who realized sooner than his other learned colleagues that America's only course was independence from the greatest empire in the world. His bluntness and insight repelled and attracted his colleagues as he led some of them, kicking and screaming, toward a declaration of independence.
His wife and friend, Abigail provided the wisdom and patience her husband sometimes lack, and proved to be a better judge of character than him. If ever the United States could claim a "founding mother," Abigail Adams would be the only one to come to mind. Her husband relied on her, trusted her, and followed her counsel throughout his life.
None of this would have come to light if their correspondence during long and lonely years of separation had not survived. Abigail urged her husband to burn her letters, which he fortunately never did. These letters reassured and comforted each other. His letters provided her with news of a nation that was being born, and her letters provided him with the insight and confidence he needed in his career.
One of John Adams' greatest fears was that he would be forgotten for the sacrifices he made. He was away more time in their first fourteen years of marriage than he was with her, as he was appointed as Constitutional delegate and minister to France. He singlehandedly went to Holland to obtain credit for a fledgling nation. Once the Revoution was over, the Congress of the United States made him the first minister to Great Britain, where a few years earlier he would have been hanged for treason against the king. Unaware of his popularity while abroad, Adams was surprised at his reception when he returned home. He soon became the first vice president of the country and its second president.
This story not only explores the intimate relationship between a man and his wife, but the friendship between Adams and Jefferson, its subsequent dissolution, and its renewal through correspondence in later life.
This is a documentary with a minimal amount of dialogue between actors Simon Russell Beale (John Adams) and Linda Emond (Abigail Adams). William Ogden Stiers narrates the story with pauses from historians Joanne Freeman and Joseph Ellis, and author David McCullough.
This was an informative and entertaining two hours of American history. It ends with death of Adams and Jefferson who died fifty years to the day after the Declaration of Independence. Adams final words were, "Jefferson lives," but Jefferson had died three hours ahead of Adams. Both men died with the sound of church bells and fireworks honoring the work they had done.
Entertaining and informative.
Description of American Experience: John and Abigail Adams
Relying heavily on the extraordinary correspondence between the 2nd president & his wife this joint biography sheds light not only on the characters of 2 remarkable people but on the tumultuous times through which they lived. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 01/24/2006 Run time: 120 minutes Rating: NrBestsellers in DVD
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