This is history on a grand scale, an audiobook about politics, war, and social issues, but also about human nature, love, religious faith, virtue, ambition, friendship, and betrayal, and the far-reaching consequences of noble ideas. McCullough's John Adams has the sweep and vitality of a great novel. His rocky relationship with friend and eventual archrival Thomas Jefferson, his courageous voyage on the frigate Boston in the winter of 1778, and his later trek over the Pyrenees are exploits few would have dared and that few listeners will ever forget. Much about Adams' life will come as a surprise to many. Adams thought, wrote, and spoke out for the "Great Cause" come what might he traveled far and wide in all seasons and often at extreme risk he rose to become the second president of the United States and saved the country from blundering into an unnecessary war he was rightly celebrated for his integrity, and regarded by some as "out of his senses" and his marriage to the wise and valiant Abigail Adams is one of the most moving love stories in American history. Pulitzer Prize, Biography/Autobiography, 2002In this powerful, epic biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution.
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