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| Seller Notes: | “Hardcover in Merely situation” |
| Newsletter Year: | 2001 | Structure: | Hardcover |
| Language: | English | ISBN: |
9780684813639 |
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9780684813639 |
| Synopsis | |
| His first book since Truman, from regarded as one of The USA’s most renowned and standard biographers. Destined for the identical more or less sweeping success as his Pulitzer Prize-winning Truman, John Adams is a highly efficient, deeply intelligent biography that reads treasure an myth historical new. Breathing contemporary lifestyles into American history, it takes as its field the extraordinary man who grew to vary into the 2d president of the United States. A particular person whose adventurous lifestyles and absorbing contention with Thomas Jefferson encompasses both the American Revolution and the starting up of the younger republic. Deftly written with a super search for for ingredient, McCullough describes the childhood, adolescence and coming of age of Adams, the fiercely driven Massachusetts farmer-attorney whose marriage to Abigail is regarded as one of the necessary capable accurate-lifestyles take care of tales. He moreover tells the memoir of his lifelong rival Jefferson, the Virginia planter and slaveowner. By their lives, McCullough explores the extraordinary factors that transformed thirteen colonies into an united nation that at closing brought these two distinctly dissimilar men to the presidency. Sweeping the reader from The USA to Europe, and combining a forged of compelling characters with probin The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling biography of The USA’s founding father and 2d president that used to be the premise for the acclaimed HBO sequence, brilliantly urged by grasp historian David McCullough. On this highly efficient, myth biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous lifestyles trudge of John Adams, the entertaining, fiercely impartial, over and over unhealthy, continuously correct Yankee patriot who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who rose to vary into the 2d president of the United States and saved the country from blundering into an pointless battle; who used to be learned previous all but just a few and regarded by some as “out of his senses”; and whose marriage to the wise and intrepid Abigail Adams is regarded as one of the necessary intelligent take care of tales in American history. This is history on a large scale–a book about politics and battle and social issues, but moreover about human nature, take care of, spiritual faith, virtue, ambition, friendship, and betrayal, and the a ways-reaching consequences of expedient recommendations. Above all, John Adams is a charming, over and over surprising memoir of regarded as one of the necessary perfect and fascinating Americans who ever lived. The Pulitzer Prizewinning, bestselling biography of The USA’s founding father and 2d president that used to be the premise for the acclaimed HBO sequence, brilliantly urged by grasp historian David McCullough. On this highly efficient, myth biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous lifestyles trudge of John Adams, the entertaining, fiercely impartial, over and over unhealthy, continuously correct Yankee patriot who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who rose to vary into the 2d president of the United States and saved the country from blundering into an pointless battle; who used to be learned previous all but just a few and regarded by some as “out of his senses”; and whose marriage to the wise and intrepid Abigail Adams is regarded as one of the necessary intelligent take care of tales in American history. This is history on a large scalea book about politics and battle and social issues, but moreover about human nature, take care of, spiritual faith, virtue, ambition, friendship, and betrayal, and the a ways-reaching consequences of expedient recommendations. Above all, John Adams is a charming, over and over surprising memoir of regarded as one of the necessary perfect and fascinating Americans who ever lived. | |
| Product Identifiers | |
| ISBN-10 | 0684813637 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780684813639 |
| eBay Product ID (ePID) | 1836296 |
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| Author | David McCullough |
| Number Of Pages | 752 pages |
| Structure | Hardcover |
| Newsletter Date | 2001-05-22 |
| Language | English |
| Author | Simon & Schuster |
| Newsletter Year | 2001 |
| Extra Vital sides | |
| Copyright Date | 2001 |
| Illustrated | Sure |
| Dimensions | |
| Weight | 42.5 Oz19459034] |
| Height | 1.7 In. |
| Width | 6.2 In. |
| Length | 9.2 In. |
| Target Viewers | |
| Neighborhood | Exchange |
| Classification Scheme | |
| LCCN | 2001-027010 |
| LC Classification Number | E322.M38 2001 |
| Dewey Decimal | 973.4/4/092 B |
| Dewey Edition | 21 |
| Table Of Yelp | |
| Contents Share I: RevolutionCHAPTER ONE: The Avenue to PhiladelphiaCHAPTER TWO: Valid BlueCHAPTER THREE: Colossus of IndependencePart II: Far-off ShoresCHAPTER FOUR: Appointment to FranceCHAPTER FIVE: Unalterably DeterminedCHAPTER SIX: Abigail in ParisCHAPTER SEVEN: LondonPart III: Independence ForeverCHAPTER EIGHT: Heir ApparentCHAPTER NINE: Extinct OakCHAPTER TEN: StatesmanCHAPTER ELEVEN: Agree with fun Ever MoreCHAPTER TWELVE: Depart’s EndACKNOWLEDGMENTSSOURCE NOTESBIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX ContentsPart I: RevolutionCHAPTER ONE: The Avenue to PhiladelphiaCHAPTER TWO: Valid BlueCHAPTER THREE: Colossus of IndependencePart II: Far-off ShoresCHAPTER FOUR: Appointment to FranceCHAPTER FIVE: Unalterably DeterminedCHAPTER SIX: Abigail in ParisCHAPTER SEVEN: LondonPart III: Independence ForeverCHAPTER EIGHT: Heir ApparentCHAPTER NINE: Extinct OakCHAPTER TEN: StatesmanCHAPTER ELEVEN: Agree with fun Ever MoreCHAPTER TWELVE: Depart’s EndACKNOWLEDGMENTSSOURCE NOTESBIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX ContentsPart I:�RevolutionCHAPTER ONE:�The Avenue to PhiladelphiaCHAPTER TWO:�Valid BlueCHAPTER THREE:�Colossus of IndependencePart II:�Far-off ShoresCHAPTER FOUR:�Appointment to FranceCHAPTER FIVE:�Unalterably DeterminedCHAPTER SIX:�Abigail in ParisCHAPTER SEVEN:�LondonPart III:�Independence ForeverCHAPTER EIGHT:�Heir ApparentCHAPTER NINE:�Extinct OakCHAPTER TEN:�StatesmanCHAPTER ELEVEN:�Agree with fun Ever MoreCHAPTER TWELVE:�Depart’s EndACKNOWLEDGMENTSSOURCE NOTESBIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX | |
| Opinions | |
| Gordon S. Wood The Unusual York Evaluation of Books By a ways the absolute top biography of Adams ever written…McCullough’s particular gift as an artist is his ability to re-salvage previous human beings in all their fullness and all their humanity. In John and Abigail he has stumbled on characters obliging of his ability. Marie Arana The Washington Post McCullough is regarded as one of our most talented residing writers. Michiko Kakutani The Unusual York Times Lucid and compelling…[Written] in a fluent myth fashion that combines a novelist’s sense of drama with a scholar’s meticulous attention to the historical anecdote. Walter Isaacson Time A masterwork of storytelling. | |
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