“Shaker Loops” … “Hoodoo Zephyr” … “Short Ride in a Fast Machine” — the titles alone of John Adams’ musical compositions suggest he’d make a lively, witty prose writer. That proves to be the case in ...

In 1797, John Adams became the second American president, having won election by three votes in the Electoral College. Although George Washington had set a momentous precedent by relinquishing power — ...

;It's a great show-and-tell. David McCullough, who won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for his best-selling biography of Harry Truman, is taking you through the house in Quincy, Mass., where John Adams, the ...

Lovers of classical music in the Southern Tier recognize Sam Goodyear as the sonorous voice that guides them through selections from his beloved Mozart and many other composers on WSKG radio. What ...

Wait till you see the tar-and-feathering scene in HBO's "John Adams." Wait till you see an ugly mob of Bostonians grab a British taxman, strip him naked, pour a caldron of hot pine tar over his head, ...

Achievement is most satisfying when the stakes are high. For the cast and creators of HBO’s “John Adams,” the miniseries version of David McCullough’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, coming to DVD ...

This exceedingly handsome Tom Hanks-backed production is grand in its scope and intellectually uncompromising, representing a you-won't-see-this-anywhere-else endeavor that pay TV increasingly ...