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02844aam a22005178i 4500 001 563674461DA411EBAAA0CA112BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20201103011456 008 200401s2020 meu db 000 0beng 010 $a 2020014442 020 $a 1432882562 020 $a 9781432882563 (large print : hardcover) 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-ma 050 10 $a KF223.W443 $b A27 2020 100 1 $a Abrams, Dan, $d 1966- $e author. 245 10 $a John Adams under fire : $b the founding father's fight for justice in the Boston Massacre murder trial / $c Dan Abrams and David Fisher. 246 30 $a Founding father's fight for justice in the Boston Massacre murder trial 250 $a Thorndike Press Large Print Biography and Memoir 260 $a Waterville, Maine : $b Thorndike Press A part of Gale, a Cengage Company, Gale Cengage Learning $c 2020. 263 $a 2008 300 $a 469 pages ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 $a 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. 600 10 $a Adams, John, $d 1735-1826. 600 10 $a Weems, William $x Trials, litigation, etc. 650 0 $a Presidents $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Law $z Massachusetts $x History. 650 0 $a Lawyers $z Massachusetts $x Biography. 650 0 $a Trials (Murder) $z Massachusetts $x Biography. 650 0 $a Boston Massacre, 1770. 650 0 $a Criminal defense lawyers $z Massachusetts $v Biography. 650 0 $a Large type books. 651 0 $a Massachusetts $x History $y Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. 651 0 $a Boston (Mass.) $v Trials, litigation, etc. 700 1 $a Fisher, David, $d 1946- $e author. 941 $a 6 945 $a lpt 952 $l JNPC081 $d 20231227013044.0 952 $l YLPC314 $d 20220104015534.0 952 $l KWPE446 $d 20210204030920.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20210202011843.0 952 $l HRPE845 $d 20201103013301.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20201103012942.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=563674461DA411EBAAA0CA112BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search