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The Pulitzer Prize–profitable, bestselling biography of The usa’s founding father and 2nd president that used to be the root for the acclaimed HBO collection, brilliantly advised by way of grasp historian David McCullough.

In this tough, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous existence adventure of John Adams, the bright, fiercely impartial, continuously irascible, at all times truthful Yankee patriot who spared not anything in his zeal for the American Revolution; who rose to turn into the second one president of the USA and stored the rustic from blundering into an pointless conflict; who used to be realized past all however a couple of and thought of by way of a few as “out of his senses”; and whose marriage to the sensible and valiant Abigail Adams is without doubt one of the shifting love tales in American historical past.

This is historical past on a grand scale—a e book approximately politics and conflict and social problems, but in addition approximately human nature, love, spiritual religion, distinctive feature, ambition, friendship, and betrayal, and the a ways-attaining results of noble concepts. Mainly, John Adams is a charming, continuously unexpected tale of probably the most necessary and engaging American citizens who ever lived.