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| Author: David Mccullough
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  739 reviews
Sales Rank: 308
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 768
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.1 x 1.5
ISBN: 141657588X
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.44092
EAN: 9781416575887
ASIN: 141657588X
Publication Date: January 29, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 John Adams April 28, 2008
I can't put the book down. It's a well written story, very entertaining and educational. I'm learning so much about our founding fathers and the birth of this nation that I didn't learn in school.
Excellent book April 25, 2008
This is an excellent book about a man that I previously knew very little about. Very interesting and flows well. It gave me a new perspective on some other historical figures as well, including Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin. I highly recommend this book.
the best biography I've ever read April 24, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
So I'm sitting here bawling because John Adams just died. It doesn't seem to matter that it happened 182 years ago.
The best biographers understand that a biography is not only a history of the title subject but a time machine to the time in which he or she lived. Having read this book I feel like I was in the room when John (look at that, we're on a first-name basis) rose in Congress to speak in support of the Declaration of Independence, like I was sitting at Abigail's elbow when she wrote to him wherever he was, Philadelphia, Paris, Amsterdam, London. There are so many great word pictures, like the one of John helping to repel boarders when his ship came under attack crossing the Atlantic, told this time in the words of the ship's captain.
And Abigail. Has there ever been such a woman? Has there ever been such a partnership? It's almost enough to make me believe in marriage.
Of course it helps that John and Abigail both were such indefatigable correspondents (they weren't happy that they were so many times separated but we sure lucked out) and such amazingly good writers. The quality of their writing, as well as that of their multitude of other correspondents is certain to leave you wondering where the hell that ability went.
McCullough's organizational skills in plucking just the right phrase from just the right letter are astonishing, and his own prose doesn't suffer by comparison, either. A glorious, you-are-there book.
John Adams April 20, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
As always, David McCullough has written a great read of the founding of our nation.
 Heavy, unwieldy book makes reading difficult April 20, 2008
This review is not about the writing itself; there's been enough said on that. I just wanted to point out that this book--all 768 pages of it--is large, heavy, and unwieldy. I love to read in bed, but it's nearly impossible for me to do so with this book, especially considering that it's paperback and not hardcover. The only way I can comfortably read this book is at my desk--not my first choice of locales for pleasure-reading!
I doubt this is helpful to most people considering buying this book, and I'm not trying to deter anyone from doing so. It's just not the ideal beach-read, IMHO.
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