John Adams

By: David McCullough

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Paperback | 3 September 2002 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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.

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. Above all, John Adams is an enthralling, often surprising story of one of the most important and fascinating Americans who ever lived.

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Marie Arana The Washington Post McCullough is one of our most gifted living writers. Michiko Kakutani The New York Times Lucid and compelling...[Written] in a fluent narrative style that combines a novelist's sense of drama with a scholar's meticulous attention to the historical record. Walter Isaacson Time A masterwork of storytelling. Gordon S. Wood The New York Review of Books By far the best biography of Adams ever written...McCullough's special gift as an artist is his ability to re-create past human beings in all their fullness and all their humanity. In John and Abigail he has found characters worthy of his talent.

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Revolution
The Road to Philadelphia	p. 17
True Blue	p. 78
Colossus of Independence	p. 125
Distant Shores
Appointment to France	p. 167
Unalterably Determined	p. 228
Abigail in Paris	p. 287
London	p. 333
Independence Forever
Heir Apparent	p. 389
Old Oak	p. 467
Statesman	p. 515
Rejoice Ever More	p. 568
Journey's End	p. 615
Acknowledgments	p. 653
Source Notes	p. 657
Bibliography	p. 703
Index	p. 727
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