Bittern by his own insecurities, the book details how at crucial points in his life and during the founding of the nation, Mr. The level of detail David McCollugh delves into presents a great man, of humble beginnings, as he was. I must tell everyone that the nature, character and political astuteness contained in the person of John Adams, as written by the author, compels one through each succeeding page. I stumbled upon this book while looking at some material for Thomas Jefferson. Above all, John Adams is an enthralling, often surprising story of one of the most important and fascinating Americans who ever lived.

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. The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling biography of America’s founding father and second president that was the basis for the acclaimed HBO series, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough.

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