John Adams (book) - Praise

Praise

  • Walter Isaacson for Time "America's most beloved biographer, David McCullough, has plucked Adams from the historical haze...and produced another masterwork of storytelling that blends colorful narrative with sweeping insights."
  • Booklist " wonderfully stirring biography; to read it is to feel as if you are witnessing the birth of a country firsthand."
  • Library Journal "This life of Adams is an extraordinary portrait of an extraordinary man....This excellent biography deserves a wide audience."
  • Kirkus Reviews "Despite the whopping length, there's not a wasted word in this superb, swiftly moving narrative, which brings new and overdue honor to a Founding Father."
  • The New Yorker "David McCullough's portrait may not quite give us the battered titan in all his raw, sulfurous asperity, but his vivid storytelling will surely persuade a generation to look again at this obstinate, brave, and most deeply philosophical of American patriarchs."
  • Publisher's Weekly "Here a preeminent master of narrative history takes on the most fascinating of our founders to create a benchmark for all Adams biographers."
  • Book Reporter "Lavish and abundant in documentation, readers will be delighted with the fascinating, colorful narrative in John Adams."
  • New York Times "...a lucid and compelling work."
  • The New York Review of Books "This big but extremely readable book is by far the best biography of Adams ever written."

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