01565cam a2200289 4500 9758483 TxAuBib 20080925120000.0 241017s2001||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 2001027010 9780684813639 0684813637 (OCoLC)45827978 TxAuBib McCullough, David G. John Adams / David McCullough. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2001. 751 p., [40] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 703-726) and index. In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, 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 who rose to become the second President of the United States and saved the country from blundering into an unnecessary war who was learned beyond all but a few and regarded by some as "out of his senses" and whose marriage to the wise and valiant Abigail Adams is one of the moving love stories in American history. 20080925. Adams, John 1735-1826. Presidents United States Biography. United States Politics and government 1783-1809. United States Politics and government 1775-1783. TXMOO