John Adams | David McCullough

John Adams | David McCullough | Utterly Superb

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John Adams

	John Adams David McCullough Simon & Schuster, 2008 - 768 pages average customer review:based on 770 reviews view larger image
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John Adams

I watched the 7 part series on HBO and loved the documentary. So, the book was the next best thing for me. Being an elementary school teacher, I don't get to read a lot for enjoyment during the school year. I enjoyed the book. It helped develop the lives of John and Abigail Adams for me and also helped bring some familiarity of the time period. I love history! This brought to life a part of American history for me. Thank You!

Utterly Superb

This biography was outstanding. It was complete and to the point, while letting the mind explore the life and times of one of America's first great men. Mr. McCullough is an incredible biographer and John Adams is clear evidence of that. It flowed so smoothly and was filled with so much good information. For sure, it did not disappoint and I learned more than I ever thought I would.

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Best Founding Fathers Book Yet!

This book is fabulous. It is second to none, and I have read many many books on our founding fathers. This book, though non-fiction, reads like a great fiction tale - in part due to McCullough's great writing, but also due to the prolific letter writing between John and Abigail Adams which is intertwined so well within the book. This book evoked emotion in me that I have never before felt in reading a biography. This book is a MUST.

The founding father of founding fathers

John Adams (1735-1826) is probably the most underrated thinker and actor participating in the birth of our nation, the birth of practical liberty (for society at large for the first time in history). The simple truth: were it not for Adam's fierce determination and hard intellectual work of persuasion at the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, 1776, independence from England would not have been declared, much less achieved....

Certainly, my own appreciation of the book and miniseries focuses on the ideas whose time had come: political liberty and rejection of "any form of tyranny over the mind of man." John Adams is a fascinating story of how the Colonists lived, how they thought, how they fought, and the many obstacles they faced... even among their own people.

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Brian Wright
Copyright 2008

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Delightful

The founding fathers were not born in some alien Eden: they were well acquainted with hardship, risk, and adversity. John Adam's life, admirably told in this volume, is ample testimony to determination, courage, and hard work (traits equally shared by his wife).

He defended British soldiers charged in the Boston Massacre (1770) by defining the "motley rabble" they confronted ("facts are stubborn things"): six (of eight) were acquitted. The risk of popular disfavor was put aside before devotion to the law.

A few years later he was one of a 'motley rabble' citing offenses justifying independence from his former client. The affection for the law that wed him to the crown now forced him to break with it.

Adams and his wife endowed each other with intelligent influence despite the tempests of their time, bestowing American history with uncommon grace.

Lucid, entertaining, essential reading.

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