john adams by david mccullough hardcover

The stages of Adams career, each filled in their own way with accomplishment, can be divided as follows: 1. McCullough describes well the essential role Adams played in his long life in our Nation's founding.

David McCullough's large, popular biography largely corrected this omission and brought the character and achievement of Adams alive for today's reader. John Adams had been the most overlooked of the American Founders until. Above all, it 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, but also about human nature, love, faith, virtue, ambition, friendship and betrayal, and the far-reaching consequences of noble ideas. Both a riveting portrait of an abundantly human man and a vivid evocation of his time, JOHN ADAMS has the sweep and vitality of a great novel, taking us from the Boston Massacre to Philadelphia in 1776 to the Versailles of Louis XVI, from Spain to Amsterdam to London, where Adams was the first American to stand before King George III as a representative of the new nation. A huge bestseller in America, David McCullough's JOHN ADAMS tells the extraordinary story of the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot - 'the colossus of independence', as Thomas Jefferson called him - who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution and who rose to become the second President of the United States. Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, this is a magisterial portrait of one of America's Founding Fathers and a brilliant insight into eighteenth-century world history.

A huge bestseller in America, David McCullough's JOHN ADAMS tells the extraordinary story of the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot - 'the colossus of independence', as Thomas Jefferson called him - who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution and who rose to become the second President.

John adams by david mccullough hardcover