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ADAMS from page 55 secretary to a diplomat: "There are times when we must act against our inclinations." The skill in the acting and in Kirk Ellis' screenplay, drawn from David McCullough's Pulitzer-winning biography, is that it acknowledges those natural human inclinations, while showing how the characters transcended them for the good of the country. Take George Washington, a commanding presence played with Unexpected nuance by David Morse (with the help of a prosthetic nose and chin). As "the tallest man in the room," Washington is a natural leader, but Morse projects his humility as well. When he takes the oath of office as president at the end of next weekend's third installment, with the massive New York City crowd straining to hear him, it's a moment all the more dramatic for its understatement. The first part focuses on Adams' controversial defense of those British soldiers, the second on the Congress and the Declaration of Independence.

(Adams recruits Jefferson to write it by saying, "I have a great opinion of the elegance of your The third sends him off to Paris as a wartime diplomat, a role that did not suit him as well as it did Franklin, and the fourth finds him the first U.S. ambassador to Britain before returning home to The best thing about "John Adams" is it sticks stubbornly to the facts instead of burnishing the legend of the Founding Fathers. serve as vice president to Washington. "Facts are stubborn things," Adams says as an attorney, and the best tiling about "John Adams" is it sticks stubbornly to the facts instead of burnishing the legend of the Founding Fathers. Produced by Tom Hanks, it shows the same attention to detail as his previous HBO miniseries "Band of Brothers" and "From the Earth to the Moon." It's a great work about a great man a double play all too rare on television.

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