TY - BOOK AU - McCullough, David G. TI - John Adams SN - 0684813637;9780684813639 AV - E 322 .M139 2001 PY - 2001///];copyright 2001 CY - New York PB - Simon & Schuster KW - Presidents KW - United States N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 703-726) and index N2 - 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 ER -