John Adams

Written by:
David McCullough
Narrated by:
Nelson Runger

Unabridged Audiobook

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227
Narrator
19
Release Date
May 2001
Duration
30 hours 0 minutes
Summary
The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling biography of America’s founding father and second president that was the basis for the acclaimed HBO series, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough.

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.
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For no reason, there were many long pauses in the reading of the book. I could hear the narrator breath through his nose while reading the book. The book is a compilation of diary entries and letters by the main characters. The author did not enhance the history with his own research about the culture, politics, activities and lifestyles the of the times.

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