John Adams /

McCullough, David G.

John Adams / David McCullough. - 751 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 703-726) and index.

A biography of John Adams. David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of 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 and who rose to become the second President of the United States.

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Presidents--United States

E 322 / .M139 2001