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His first book since Truman, from one of America's most distinguished and popular biographers. Destined for the same kind of sweeping success as his Pulitzer Prize-winning Truman, John Adams is a powerful, deeply moving biography that reads like an epic historical novel. Breathing fresh life into American history, it takes…
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I was working my way through listening to audiobooks on every President and wasn’t all that enthused about John Adams who was known to be a stick-in-the-mud. Boy was I wrong.
I adored this book because of the way McCullough brought Adams to life and made me respect, admire, and even like him in the end. The relationship between Adams and his wife was profound and made me long for others to capture what they felt.
Of course, Edward Herrman’s narration is worth the price of the book all by itself. In fact, I have purchased a dozen or more…
From W. Kenneth's list on biographies of brilliant people written by literary giants and narrated by all-time greats.
A little over three decades after writing The Johnstown Flood, McCullough used his uncanny ability to connect with history subjects to create the best biography of John Adams ever written.
Titling it simply John Adams, McCullough walks readers through the life of one of America’s greatest revolutionaries and second president. With this book, McCullough takes Adams out of his vaunted place in the American pantheon of patriots and brings him back down to earth.
We get to know the world and family into which John was born in 18th-century Massachusetts. We learn how his humble beginnings as a…
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