By David McCullough, published by Simon & Schuster, New York, 2001, softcover, 751 pages, illustrated, index, notes and bibliography. This book authored by David McCullough won the Pulitzer Prize. Brand new condition. Never read.

"A masterwork of storytelling." Walter Isaacson.

"By far the best biography of John Adams ever written...McCullough's special gift as an artist is his ability to re-create past human beings in all their fullness and all of their humanity. In John and Abigail he has found characters worthy of his talent." Gordon S. Wood, The New York Review of Books

In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot 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. This is history on a grand scale- a book about politics and war and social issues, but also about human nature, love, religious faith, virtue, ambition, friendship, and betrayal, and the far reaching consequences of noble ideas. Above all, John Adams is an enthralling, often surprising story of one of the most important and fascinating Americans who ever lived.

"McCullough is one of our most gifted living writers."

David McCullough has twice received the Pulitzer Prize, for "Truman" and "John Adams," twice received the National Book Award, the National Humanities Medal, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and was the Winner Of The Revolutionary War Roundtable Prize.