John adams biography david mccullough

  • John adams david mccullough review
  • David mccullough siblings
  • John quincy adams

    • •

    My Journey Through the Best Presidential Biographies

    &#;John Adams&#; is the narrative biography of our nation&#;s second president, written by author and historian David McCullough.  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.  Among many other accolades, the book received a Pulitzer Prize.

    As my journey through the best presidential biographies swept me from Washington to Adams, I looked forward to this book with great anticipation. Few books in my library have received as many outstanding reviews as this biography.  With all but angels singing the book&#;s praises, I was only slightly worried about reports of the author&#;s overly-generous treatment of Adams.  And in the back of my mind, I harbored some suspicion that Adams may not have supplied history much in the way of interesting raw material.

    On the latter poin

    •

    John Adams

    The pris Prize–winning, bestselling biography of America’s founding father and second president that was the grund for the acclaimed HBO series, brilliantly told bygd 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 bygd 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, mål, friendship, and betrayal, and the far-reaching consequences o

    •

    Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough died August 8, at age In this "Sunday Morning" interview, originally broadcast on July 1, , he discusses his biography of an overlooked Founding Father:

    In the cool grandeur of the National Archives in Washington, where the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution are enshrined, historian David McCullough is anything but cool about how history has treated one of the major forces behind those two documents: John Adams. 

    "There's no statue to him in Washington," McCullough told correspondent Rita Braver. "There's no face on Mount Rushmore. There's no monument. There's no picture of John Adams on our money. There isn't a postage stamp in circulation with John Adams' picture on it. This is a disgrace!"

    But now McCullough, one of the most influential historians of our time, has become an Adams advocate, using his skills and his celebrity to introduce Americans to this forgotten patriot, with a massive new biography, "Jo

  • john adams biography david mccullough