McCullough - John Adams

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A narrative tour de force... expert research and detailed, graceful prose. Publishers Weekly

Combines a novelists sense of drama with a scholars meticulous attention to the historical record. The New York Times

Rich in revealing anecdotes and penetrating insights. The Washington Post

A full account of Roosevelts rise to manhood... full of irrepressible vitality. The Denver Post

Full of giant-sized characters and rich in political skullduggery. The New York Times

It will entice a whole new generation of Francophiles. San Francisco Chronicle

That sort of work which brings us to the human center of the past. Los Angeles Times

A first rate example of the documentary method. The New Yorker

If you enjoy good stories well told about interesting people and places, you should read this book. The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)

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PRAISE FOR JOHN ADAMS

In a vivid and richly detailed biography, the master historian... breathes vigorous life into the story of the nations second president... with meticulous research and flawless execution.... Within the epic drama of the American Revolution, McCullough presents the interior story of a man, reminding us that the Revolution didnt just happen; people made it happennone more so than Adams. Brilliant, irascible, honest, Adams is now known more intimately than any figure of the founding era.

Rob Mitchell, The Boston Herald

Absorbing and readable narrative... stirring history... vivid storytelling.

Simon Schama, The New Yorker

An incomparable up-to-date look at Adams and his family... a riches of description and evaluation... McCullough has limned Adams and his relationship with his beloved Abigail so well that our second President has been elevated to new stature.... What McCullough has accomplished would have pleased John Adams immensely... [Adams] is getting his due in this bountiful biography.

Henry F. Graff, The New Leader

Ive been reading biography all my life and this is a gem. The idea of David McCullough rehabilitating John Adams is irresistibleand this book is astute, moving, all-encompassing and riveting.

Ellen V. Futter, President, the American Museum of Natural History
(as quoted in The New York Times )

Vivid... McCulloughs characteristically lovely, cantering prose is particularly suited to this sort of historical storytelling, and in these pages it seductively plays to all the readers senses.... lucid and entertaining.

Margaria Fichtner, The Miami Herald

John Adams is that rare, solid, scholarly history so well written its truly a pleasure to read.

Douglas Brinkley, The Boston Globe

The tension between [Adams and Jefferson] is just one of many great historical dramas played out in McCulloughs engaging and thorough account.

People magazine

Carefully researched, lovingly written.

Pauline Maier, The New York Times Book Review

Splendid. If nations appointed historians laureate, David McCullough would surely be ours.

Edwin M. Yoder Jr., The Washington Post

Superlative... brings the most human and hard-driving of the founders to life before your eyes.

Mary McGrory, The Charleston Gazette

[McCullough is] a master storyteller whose sentences flow with sturdy pacing and seamless grace.... John Adams reads very much like a historical novel.

Gene Seymour, Newsday

[McCullough] focuses on personalities, bringing his characters vividly to life while unfolding a story that fairly sweeps his readers along.

John Rhodehamel, Los Angeles Times

David McCullough is one of our very best popular historians. He is a thorough researcher. His prose sings.... Added to that in this book is a passionate regard for his subject, for John Adams and the greatness of his life and works.

Fritz Lanham, The Houston Chronicle

A moving, suspenseful account... McCullough is one of our great storytellers... McCullough makes the story of the Revolution fresh... compelling.

Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman, San Diego Union-Tribune

In this fine biography, [Adams] emerges as both a crucial historical figure and a vital, thoroughly likeable human being.... McCullough combines the historians sober analysis with the novelists eye for character. Not only Adams, but Jefferson, Hamilton, Franklin, and even... Washington emerge as vivid and fully fleshed as any characters in fiction.

Bill Marvel, American Way

The scholarship of John Adams will disappoint neither professional historians nor serious readers... brilliant.

Dylan Foley, The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH)

The essence of John Adams [is] perfectly captured in David McCulloughs marvelous new biography.... McCullough... is an historian of renown. His great gift is to bring the past absolutely alive.

Erica Wagner, The Times (London)

McCullough tells a crackling good yarn... we owe him a great debt of thanks, for he has shown us who we once wereand can be again.

David Gergen, U.S. News & World Report

McCullough wonderfully tells the life of this brave, sometimes vain and ill-tempered man as, first and always, a love story, his marriage to Abigail being one of Americas greatest collaborations. McCulloughs gift for detail... makes his narrative sprightly.

George Will, The Chicago Sun-Times

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