"John Adams"

9781416575887
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A huge bestseller in America, David McCullough's JOHN ADAMS tells the extraordinary story of 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. Both a riveting portrait of an abundantly human man and a vivid evocation of his time, JOHN ADAMS has the sweep and vitality of a great novel, taking us from the Boston Massacre to Philadelphia in 1776 to the Versailles of Louis XVI, from Spain to Amsterdam to London, where Adams was the first American to stand before King George III as a representative of the new nation. This is history on a grand scale -- a book about politics and war, but also about human nature, love, faith, virtue, ambition, friendship and betrayal, and the far-reaching consequences of noble ideas. Above all, it is an enthralling, often surprising story of one of the most important and fascinating Americans who ever lived.

PRODUCT DETAILS :
ISBN : 9781416575887
BY (AUTHOR) McCullough, David
PUBLISHER : Simon & Schuster PUBLICATION DATE : March 29, 2008
COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United States IMPRINT : Simon & Schuster
LANGUAGE : English AGE : General
PRODUCT FORM : Paperback / softback
DIMENSION : 235 mm x 155 mm

PRODUCT CATEGORY :
Biography, Literature & Literary studies