epub | 4.49 MB | English | Isbn:‎ B07W14ZF8Y | Author: Dan Abrams | Year: 2020

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NOW A NEW YORK TIMES* BESTSELLER*

“An expert, extremely detailed account of John Adams’ finest hour.”— *Kirkus Reviews

Honoring the 250th Anniversary of the Boston Massacre

The *New York Times bestselling author of *Lincoln’s Last Trial *and host of LivePD* Dan Abrams and David Fisher tell the story of a trial that would change history.

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.

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

Review

"The story is both compelling on its own terms and a lesson about some eternal truths about criminal justice." -- "Jeffrey Toobin on Lincoln's Last Trial"

"Dan Abrams and David Fisher present a fascinating window into the former President Roosevelt that is fresh and often surprising. This trial and Roosevelt's defense of his reputation on the stand, often under fierce questioning, is truly mesmerizing." -- "Brian Kilmeade on Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense"

"Abrams and Fisher do a superb job of clearly presenting the issues in this remarkable and intensely dramatic trial." -- "Scott Turow on Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense"

"Dan Abrams and David Fisher write the heart-pounding pulse of history...This book not only brings a rare transcript to life, it makes you feel as if you are watching a live camera riveted on a courtroom more than 150 years ago." -- "Diane Sawyer on Lincoln's Last Trial"

About the Author

Dan Abrams is the chief legal affairs correspondent for ABC News as well as the host of top-rated Live PD on A&E Network and The Dan Abrams Show: Where Politics Meets the Law on SiriusXM. A graduate of Columbia University Law School, he is CEO and founder of Abrams Media, which includes the Law & Crime network. He lives in New York.

David Fisher is the author of twenty-five New York Times bestsellers. He lives in New York with his wife, Laura.

Category:Legal History, Colonial Period History of the U.S., Legal History