by David McCullough, Nelson Runger
I haven’t read a book this good in years! I cannot imagine anyone who wouldn’t enjoy this book. This is a book about a man, John Adams, but it is also much, much more. It is a book about American Independence, the American Revolution and all the Founding Fathers, the seven most important being Georg...
I haven’t read a book this good in years! I cannot imagine anyone who wouldn’t enjoy this book. This is a book about a man, John Adams, but it is also much, much more. It is a book about American Independence, the American Revolution and all the Founding Fathers, the seven most important being Georg...
What do you know about John Adams? Probably not as much as you should. As one of our Founding Fathers, Adams had exceptional courage to step forward and do the right things in the midst of the Revolution. He served overseas for 10 years as ambassador to France and England, also negotiating with t...
i'm a little surprised and ashamed at how little american history i remember. to that end, this book is full, full, full of rich details (how else does it get so long?) but some of them are more personal details (what someone looked like or was wearing) rather than details relevant to the time and ...
Worth reading. It made me contemplate a lot and it really made me feel inferior. He managed to do so much. If you get into it you'll start thinking about your life and the things you can do to make yourself a little more useful in this world. (Warning, it will make you want to go to Boston).
I read this before my goodreads.com days so I haven't written my own review. However, I was reminded of it recently by the following review from my PageADay Books Lover's Calendar:_____________ Widely considered to be the best biography of our second president, David McCullough’s exhaustively well-...
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