Category: History: U.S.: 18th Century

Copyright/published Year: 2020 by Hanover Square Press

ISBN: 1335015922

Binding: hardcover

Description: John Adams Under Fire: The Founding Father's Fight for Justice in ì the Boston Massacre Murder Trial

On the night of March 5, 1770, shots were fired by British ì soldiers on the streets of Boston, killing five civilians. The ì Boston Massacre has often been called the first shots of the ì American Revolution. As John Adams would later remember, "On that ì night the formation of American independence was born." Yet when ì the British soldiers faced trial, the young lawyer Adams was ì determined that they receive a fair one. He volunteered to ì represent them, keeping the peace in a powder keg of a colony, ì and in the process created some of the foundations of what would ì become United States law.

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

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This is a used book and is in ' like new' condition.

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Like new copy. Appears never read. NO remainder markings.