The Adams chronicles
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Published
Silver Spring, Md. : Distributed by Acorn Media, [2008].
Language
English
UPC
00054961806393, 054961806393

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General Note
Title from container.
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Based on the family's personal diaries and correspondences.
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Originally broadcast on television in 1976.
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Contains all 13 episodes of the television mini-series.
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Special features: A 12-page program guide featuring articles by C. James Taylor, editor in chief of the Adams Papers, and Neil Horstman, president of the White House Historical Association.
Creation/Production Credits
Original music, John Morris.
Participants/Performers
George Grizzard, Kathryn Walker, William Daniels, David Birney, John Beal, Peter Brandon, Charles Siebert, Nancy Marchand.
Description
Television mini-series that dramatizes four generations of Adamses and 150 years of American history from the birth of the Revolution through the Gilded Age. Meet John Adams, a passionate revolutionary and second president; John Quincy Adams, proud son of a famous father and sixth president; Charles Francis Adams, skillful minister to Great Britain during the Civil War; historian Henry Adams; and railroad magnate Charles Francis Adams, Jr. Going beyond politics, this mini-series portrays these men as husbands, fathers, brothers, sons, as well as leaders.
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DVD format, full screen (4:3) presentation; Dolby Digital.
Language
Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.