America 250: The President’s Club - John Adams
In-Person & on Zoom: with Historian Peter Vermilyea
Join us each month for one year as we explore 12 influential Presidents through selected biographies spanning from George Washington through John F. Kennedy.
August Selection:
In August, we will be exploring John Adams by David McCullough - A Pulitzer Prize winning book.
In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution and his love and dedication to fairness and American democracy.
About the Presenter:
Peter Vermilyea teaches history at Housatonic Valley Regional High School in Falls Village, CT and at Western Connecticut State University. A graduate of Gettysburg College, he serves as the scholarship director of his alma mater’s Civil War Institute. He is the author or editor of five books and fifteen articles, most on aspects of Civil War history.
Registration required only to attend in-person. Zoom link is at owlibrary.org
