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His first book since truman, from one of americas most distinguished and popular biographers. It is both a riveting portrait of an abundantly human man and a vivid evocation of his time, much of it drawn from an. Trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. His other acclaimed books include the johnstown flood, the great bridge, brave companions, 1776, the greater journey, the american spirit, and the wright. Mcculloughs history, the greater journey 2011, is about americans in paris from the 1830s to the 1900s.

Working for the next seven years, mccullough published john adams 2001, his third biography about a united states president. In this powerful, epic biography, david mccullough unfolds the adventurous lifejourney of john adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest yankee patriotthe colossus of independence, as thomas jefferson called himwho. It is both a riveting portrait of an abundantly human man and a vivid evocation of his time, much of it drawn from an outstanding collection of adams. John adams, david mcculloughs pulitzer prizewinning book and one of the bestselling american historical biographies of all time, comes to the screen as a sevenpart hbo films miniseries. David mccullough has twice received the pulitzer prize, for truman and john adams, and twice received the national book award, for the path between the seas and mornings. John adams, to gauge by the letters and diaries from which mccullough liberally quotes, did not exactly go out of his way to assume a leadership role in the tumultuous years of the american revolution, though he was always ambitious to excel. Adams personal diary and correspondence with wife abigail and others form the basis of this wonderful biography of one of our greatest patriots. May 01, 2001 a great, troubled, and, it seems, overlooked president receives his due from the pulitzerwinning historianbiographer mccullough truman, 1992, etc.

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