John Adams

In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous live of John Adams, the 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.