John Adams

Last night we finished watching the HBO mini-series about John Adams based on the book by David McCullough. I highly recommend it. Not only did it tell a fabulous story of this Founding Father that I personally didn't know much about except his name, it also was a great recreation of the time period. John Adams was a man passionate about doing what is right and was not shy about speaking his mind, even to the big-wigs in France and England.

Most other movies that I've seen set in this era glamorize the living conditions or don't accurately portray all the details. But this movie was different. No one wore make-up (except as the characters grew older to make the actors look old); the men who were at the Continental Congress were sweating as the real Founding Fathers were that summer of 1776. There was mud and smoke everywhere, and they showed the people doing a lot of the day to day chores that were part of life back then. So, the production was great, as was the story.

I feel like I have a much better understanding of what price was paid secure the freedom found in the United States of America. I hope to find more sources of American History that are not afraid to tell the story how it was and not try to romanticize the facts. I want the facts and the truth and feel like "John Adams" provides just that.