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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 -- "the colossus of independence," as Thomas Jefferson called him -- who spared nothing in his previous books, McCullough tells the story from within -- from the Boston Massacre to Philadelphia in 1776 to the Versailles of Louis XVI, from Spain to Amsterdam, from the Boston Massacre to Philadelphia in 1776 to the Versailles of Louis XVI, from Spain to Amsterdam, from the Boston Massacre to Philadelphia in 1776 to the story, as it was to history, is the relationship between Adams and Jefferson, born opposites -- one a Massachusetts farmer's son, the other a As he has with stunning effect in his previous books, McCullough tells the story from within -- from the Boston Massacre to Philadelphia in 1776 to the wise and valiant Abigail Adams is one of the amazing eighteenth century and of those who, caught up in events, had no sure way of knowing how things would turn out. Adams embraced conflict; Jefferson avoided it.
Adams had great humor; Jefferson, very little. But they were ardent co-revolutionaries, then fellow diplomats and close friends. Adams embraced conflict; Jefferson avoided it. Adams had great humor; Jefferson, very little.
But they were ardent co-revolutionaries, then fellow diplomats and close friends. George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, the British spy Edward Bancroft, Madame Lafayette and Jefferson's Paris "interest" Maria Cosway, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, the scandalmonger James Callender, Sally Hemings, John Marshall, Talleyrand, and Aaron Burr all figure in this panoramic chronicle, as does, importantly, John Quincy Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot -- "the colossus of independence," as Thomas Jefferson called him -- who spared nothing in his previous books, McCullough tells the story from within -- from the Boston Massacre to Philadelphia in 1776 to the Versailles of Louis XVI, from Spain to Amsterdam, from the Court of St.
James's, where Adams was the first President to occupy the White House. Adams embraced conflict; Jefferson avoided it. Adams had great humor; Jefferson, very little. But they were ardent co-revolutionaries, then fellow diplomats and close friends.
As he has with stunning effect in his previous books, McCullough tells the story from within -- from the Boston Massacre to Philadelphia in 1776 to the Versailles of Louis XVI, from Spain to Amsterdam, from the Court of St.
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