| Movie Review | The Journal of American History, 93.3

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John and Abigail Adams. Dir. by Peter Jones. Prod. by Elizabeth Deane. wgbh Boston and Green Umbrella, Ltd., 2005. 120 mins. (PBS Video, 1320 Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA 22314; 800-531-4727; http://www.shoppbs.org/)
John Adams was, with the possible exception of George Washington, America's greatest founding statesman. No man did as much or accomplished as much during the American Revolution. Adams was the Revolution's leading man of ideas, and he was its leading man of action. He embodied in thought and action the principles of the Revolution in a way unmatched by any other American of that great generation.	1
Such is the entirely plausible claim of the writer and producer Elizabeth Deane and the director Peter Jones in their delightful historical documentary, John and Abigail Adams, produced for pbs in its American Experience series. Employing and adapting to film the recently rediscovered historical genre known as moral biography, Deane and Jones go a long way to proving that Adams was in fact the Atlas of Independence. And through it all, as they so effectively demonstrate, he had by his side his indomitable wife, Abigail.	. . .

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