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Review of “John Adams” by David McCullough
- "John Adams" is the narrative biography of our nation's second president, written by author and historian David McCullough.
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John Adams by David McCullough: Summary and Reviews - BookBrowse
- “John Adams” is the 2001 narrative biography of our nation’s second president, written by author and historian David McCullough.
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- Of the seven John Adams biographies in my library, McCullough’s “John Adams” is the most popular by an enormous margin, and is widely considered one of the best presidential biographies ever written.
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| Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, and John Quincy Adams had all served as secretary of State before becoming president. | |
| 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 zeal for the American Revolution; who rose to become the second President of the United States and saved the. | |
| The War of 1812 was notable in the history of American warfare because. |
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Book Review: 'John Adams' by David McCullough – Kenneth M ...
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At the height of the XYZ Affair in 1798, when American public outrage against France verged on war hysteria, President John Adams briefly enjoyed the sort of popular acclaim that he had long thought he deserved. In Paris, the French foreign minister Talleyrand had tried to bribe three American envoys sent by Adams to negotiate an end to continuing maritime hostilities between the two erstwhile allies. Adams, who had never served in battle, took to wearing military regalia in public and spent hours writing grateful, bellicose replies to his backers’ addresses of support, vowing never to countenance “national Dishonour” and bidding his admirers to assume a “warlike Character.” It all got a little heady. “No man...,” the Federalist Theodore Sedgwick declared at the height of the enthusiasm, “will go down to posterity with greater lustre than John Adams--I will not even except George Washington.”
A mere two years later Adams, forsaken by the right wing of his own party an
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- While McCullough never misses an episode in Adams's long and often troubled life, he includes enough biographical material on Jefferson that this can be considered two biographies for the price of one—which explains some of its portliness.