John Adams
I loved watching the John Adams mini-series. It has ignited a passion to read more about some of the US founding fathers and I have now read the book the mini-series is based on, a biography of Jefferson and a book on the Johnson impeachment saga.
Anyway hopefully a NZ TV station will show the series here at some stage, now it has been nominated for a staggering 23 Emmies. I reckon it will win many of them also.
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August 26th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Where did you watch this David?
August 26th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
i just downloaded it every week. bloody good show.
August 26th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
Same as dime.
August 26th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
I have Ben Franklin’s autobiography here somewhere. Not that he was a president, but he was a founding father. Quite interesting read.
August 27th, 2008 at 7:34 am
It was surprisingly good, considering that it was an HBO series. I thought Laura Linney was an odd choice before it aired, but she did an excellent job.
Wait. It was on HBO. They didn’t show it over there?
August 27th, 2008 at 11:34 am
Look, DPF, there is hardly any better lesson in political principles than the writings and speeches of the founding fathers of the USA. The sheer success of their vision should have made this a no-brainer long since, but what happens? Endless study and propagation in our institutions, of Karl Marx, Antonio Gramsci, Herbert Marcuse, etc, etc, etc……..and the “moderate right” generally just succumbs to the agenda, lacking any sort of foundation on which to withstand it.
DUH.
A small minority of one-time Uni students rebel and read Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, Charles DeMontesquieu, and the US founding fathers, and so on, and pretty much cannot fail to end up as conservatives; which is why the socialists are so desperate to maintain their stranglehold over the reading lists and the definition of what constitutes acceptable thought. But anyone grounded in these philosophies has to exist on the margins of political discourse in NZ. Sad but true.