John Adams
by David McCullough
Simon and Schuster
2001
Yes McCullough's fine Adams' biography was published sometime ago, but it remains an important window to American Revolutionary politics. Adams has often taken a backseat to both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, and McCullough corrects that image in bristling detail. Expertly narrated by Edward Hermann, Adams comes very much alive and the entire book is worth the closing chapters and the Hermann's sympathetic reading of McCullough's account of the deaths of Adams and Thomas Jefferson on July 4, 1826, the 50th Anniversary of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence. That...is as American as apple pie.
