"By far the best biography of Adams ever written. "A masterwork of storytelling." - Walter Isaacson. Above all, John Adams is an enthralling, often surprising story of one of the most important and fascinating Americans who ever lived." - from the rear outer cover. This is history on a grand scale - a book about politics and war and social issues, but also about human nature, love, religious faith, virtue, ambition, friendship, and betrayal, and the far-reaching consequences of noble ideas.
"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 who rose to become the second president of the United States and saved the country from blundering into an unnecessary war who was learned beyond all but a few and regarded by some as "out of his senses" and whose marriage to the wise and valiant Abigail Adams is one of the moving love stories in American history.
First Touchstone Edition, First Printing, 2002 per the copyright page. Time Best Nonfiction Book of the Year The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Winner of the Academy of Diplomacy Award Winner of the Christopher Award and Winner of the Revolutionary War Roundtable Prize. Includes Praise for John Adams by David McCullough List of Other Books by David McCullough Acknowledgments Source Notes Bibliography and Index. As new condition color illustrated softcover wraps.
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