By David McCullough: John Adams

By David McCullough: John Adams

In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, firercly independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee partiot-"the colossus of independent," as Thomas Jefferson called him-who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution who rose to become the second Preisent of the United States and saved the coutnry 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. Like this masterly, Pulitzer Prise-winning biography Truman, David McCullough's John Adlams has the sweep and vitality of a great novel. It is both a riveting portrait of an abundantly human man and a vivid evocation of his time, much of it drawn from an outstanding collection of Adams family letters and diaries. In particular, the more than one thousand surviving letters before John and Abigail Adams, nearly half of which have never been published, provide extraordinary access to their private lives and make it possible to know John Adams as no other major American of his founding eera. As he has with stunning effort in his previous books, McCullough tells the story from within-grom the point of view of the amazing eighteenth century and of those who, caught up in events, had no sure way of knowing how things would turn out.

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