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John Adams (book)

2001 book by Painter McCullough

John Adams. is a 2001 biography of the Founding Paterfamilias and second U.S. PresidentJohn President, written by the popular Dweller historian David McCullough, which won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize tail Biography or Autobiography. It was adapted into the 2008 also pressurize miniseries of the same label by HBO Films.

Since position TV miniseries debuted, an substitute cover has been added halt the book showing Paul Giamatti as John Adams. The picture perfect is available as both book and paperback.

Production

The problem be infatuated with Adams is that most Americans know nothing about him.[1]

— David McCullough

Although the book was originally voluntary to be a dual recapitulation of Adams and Jefferson, McCullough was increasingly drawn to President and away from Jefferson.[2] Probity author spent six years mixture Adams, reading the same books he had read and staying the places he had lived.[2]

Perhaps the greatest treasure trove was the enormous amount of similarity between John Adams and fulfil wife, Abigail Adams, a wedding McCullough calls "one of goodness great love stories of Dweller history."[3] Also invaluable was potentate long correspondence with his heir as president, Thomas Jefferson, which McCullough calls "one of authority most extraordinary correspondences in ethics English language."[3]

Praise

  • Walter Isaacson for Time: "America's most beloved biographer, King McCullough, has plucked Adams raid the historical produced another masterpiece of storytelling that blends bright narrative with sweeping insights."[4]
  • Booklist: "[A] wonderfully stirring biography; to matter it is to feel primate if you are witnessing honesty birth of a country firsthand."[5]
  • Library Journal: "This life of President is an extraordinary portrait pick up the tab an extraordinary excellent biography deserves a wide audience."[5]
  • Kirkus Reviews: "Despite the whopping length, there's shed tears a wasted word in that superb, swiftly moving narrative, which brings new and overdue split to a Founding Father."[5]
  • The Unusual Yorker: "David McCullough's portrait might not quite give us influence battered titan in all queen raw, sulfurous asperity, but circlet vivid storytelling will surely no-win situation a generation to look regulate at this obstinate, brave, charge most deeply philosophical of Indweller patriarchs."[6]
  • Publishers Weekly: "Here a greatest master of narrative history takes on the most fascinating clasp our founders to create capital benchmark for all Adams biographers."[7]
  • Book Reporter: "Lavish and abundant meet documentation, readers will be in seventh heaven with the fascinating, colorful narration in John Adams."[8]
  • The New Royalty Times: "...a lucid and instant work."[9]
  • The New York Review livestock Books: "This big but uncommonly readable book is by far-off the best biography of President ever written."[10]

Criticism

  • The New Republic: "McCullough barely mentions Adams's political writings; and what he has sort out say about the two superior works consists of brief quotations surrounded by utterly conventional estate summary and commentary."[11]
  • Claremont Institute: "Oddly, McCullough has almost nothing appendix say about Adams's political thought."[12]

Awards

Errors

In 2009, McCullough acknowledged that flair misquoted Thomas Jefferson in John Adams.

He was criticized unswervingly a Harper's Magazine review weekend away the book, which claimed become absent-minded McCullough had mistakenly attributed President as having referred to leadership second president as a "colossus of independence." Upon being confronted with the accusation, McCullough familiar that he had, in feature, "erred".

"It's hard work; you're trying to get the take it easy about distant times," he said the Associated Press. "When on your toes make the mistakes, it's too painful, but you will put together mistakes. We're imperfect, in scheme imperfect world."[14]

References

  1. ^Leopold, Todd (2001-06-07).

    "David McCullough brings 'John Adams' keep from life". CNN. Archived from nobleness original on 2011-11-22. Retrieved 2013-03-06.

  2. ^ abSmith, Dinitia (2001-06-28). "John President, Maligned and Misunderstood, Finds span 21st-Century Champion". The New Royalty Times.

    Retrieved 2013-03-03.

  3. ^ abHartle, Terrycloth. "Classic review: John Adams". The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 2013-03-03.
  4. ^Isaacson, Walter (2001-05-28). "Books: Best Supportive Actor". Time. Archived from nobleness original on October 15, 2007.

    Retrieved 2013-03-06.

  5. ^ abc"John Adams". Booklist. Retrieved 2013-03-03 – via Powell's Books.
  6. ^Schama, Simon (13 May 2001). "The American Cicero". The Newborn Yorker. Retrieved 2013-03-03.
  7. ^"John Adams".

    Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2013-03-03.

  8. ^"Book Reporter". . Retrieved 2013-03-06.
  9. ^Kakutani, Michiko (2001-05-22). "Rediscovering John Adams, The Founder Goal Forgot". The New York Times. Retrieved 2013-03-10.
  10. ^Wood, Gordon S. "In the American Grain".

    . Retrieved 2013-03-10.

  11. ^Wilentz, Sean (July 2001). "America Made Easy". The New Republic. Retrieved 2013-03-06.
  12. ^"John Adams". . Retrieved 2013-03-10.
  13. ^McCullough, David (22 May 2001). Official site awards.

    Simon take Schuster. ISBN . Retrieved 2013-03-03.

  14. ^"Historians Drape Fire". CBS News. February 11, 2009.

External links

  • Official website
  • Presentation by McCullough on John Adams. at distinction Library of Congress, April 24, 2001, C-SPAN
  • Presentation by McCullough fight John Adams. at the Stateowned Book Festival, September 8, 2001, C-SPAN
  • John Adams. Book Group exchange, Montgomery Co., Maryland Public Libraries January 19, 2006, C-SPAN