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Author Abrams, Dan, 1966- author.

Title John Adams under fire : the Founding Father's fight for justice in the Boston Massacre murder trial / Dan Abrams and David Fisher.

Publication Info. Toronto, Ontario : Hanover Square Press, with Harlequin Books, [2020]

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 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  973.3113 ABRAMS    Check Shelf
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 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  973.3 ABRAMS    Check Shelf
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 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  973.3113 ABRAMS    Check Shelf

Description 313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-293) and index.
Summary 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.
Subject Adams, John, 1735-1826.
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
Law -- Massachusetts -- History.
Lawyers -- Massachusetts -- Biography.
Trials (Murder) -- Massachusetts -- Biography.
Boston Massacre, 1770.
Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Boston (Mass.) -- Trials, litigation, etc.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State.
HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)
LAW / Legal History.
TRUE CRIME / Historical.
Adams, John, 1735-1826. (OCoLC)fst00042531
Boston Massacre (1770) (OCoLC)fst00836805
Law. (OCoLC)fst00993678
Lawyers. (OCoLC)fst00994346
Presidents. (OCoLC)fst01075723
Trials (Murder) (OCoLC)fst01156368
Massachusetts. (OCoLC)fst01204307
Massachusetts -- Boston. (OCoLC)fst01205012
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1600-1775
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Trials, litigation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01423712
True crime stories. (OCoLC)fst01919985
True crime stories.
Biographies.
Added Author Fisher, David, 1946- author.
ISBN 9781335015921 (hardcover)
1335015922 (hardcover)
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