John Adams Book Review by David McCollough

In this prevailing, heroic life story, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often hot-tempered, always honest Yankee patriot “The colossus of independence,” as Thomas Jefferson called him, who spared nothing in his passion for the American Revolution; who rose to become the second President of the United States and saved the country from carelessness into an unnecessary war; who was learned beyond all but a few and regarded …showed first 75 words of 1207 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1207 total…find himself on the well-deserved short list for a second Pulitzer Prize. A final remark about this book, I would recommend this book because the book contains all the occurred events, practically his whole life. It also has great illustrations. I swear every library I went to it was not available; someone had already checked it out!!! So I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one that thought this was a great book.