Between 1778 and 1788, John Adams served his country as a diplomat in France, the Netherlands, and Great Britain. His independent, unbending temperament was not ideal for diplomacy, and his diplomatic ...
The Adams-Sellars narrative, with its allusion to one of Giacomo Puccini’s bona fide operas—1910’s “The Girl of the Golden West”—concerns the California Gold Rush, specifically the year 1851 and the ...