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Article: Colossus of Independence.('John Adams')(Review)
- Article from:
- The New American
- Article date:
- September 24, 2001
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David Mccullough's new biography of John Adams brings into sharper focus the life, works, and character of one of our nation's more neglected Founding Fathers.
John Adams, by David McCullough, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001,751 pages, hardbound, $35.00.
In John Adams, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer David McCullough has written a refreshing and interesting examination of one of the most prominent but least appreciated of America's Founding Fathers. The book is a needed corrective for the relative obscurity in which, sadly, Adams remains mired. Adams himself anticipated this. "Popularity was never my mistress, nor was I ever, or shall I ever be a ...