John Adams
(David McCullough)
John Adams
by
David McCullough
This biography by Pulitzer-Prize-Winning author David McCullough is more than just an
account of one of our founding fathers. It is a mural. McCullough's story-telling skills are so
refined that one has the feeling of standing before history and seeing it as a picture, not a continuum.
In this book we not only get a marvelous and detailed accounting of John Adam's life, but
"mini-bio's" of the lives of other significant early Americans: his wife, Abigail; Thomas Jefferson;
his son John Quincy, himself to become President of the United States; Benjamin Franklin;
George Washington. The paroxysm of 1765-1789 that formed a new nation is told in
an entertaining and exciting narrative.
The correspondence and personal writings of the Adam's family has been maintained
better than almost any such repository in our country's history. McCullough "mines" this valuable
resource to good use...this is a book filled with the words of the subjects themselves. We see Adams
in his greatness and in his weakness. We see, through McCullough, Adams the man.
While we think of Adam's as President, or the first Vice-President, he was much more. Educated
at Harvard, he was as scholarly as Jefferson, though not the inventor or scientist Jefferson was.
Adams served diplomatic office in France, Holland and England. He was an attorney. He also wrote
considerably relative to the theory of government. His thoughts ultimately shaped the form of our national
government, and that of several states as well.
If you love America, democracy and history, this is a book that belongs in your library.
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