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“Before I read this dazzling biography, John Adams was little more to me than a name stuck between George Washington and Thomas Jefferson when naming the Presidents of the United States. McCullough, one of America’s most beloved historians, does a magnificent piece of historical resuscitation to our least glamorous Founding Father. Adams comes alive in all his waddling humanity, wry self-deprecation, and almost comic vanity and arrogance. Along the way, the entire era comes alive – the brokering of the Declaration of Independence, the long slog of the Revolution, the machinations and intrigues in the courts of Europe, the infighting, backstabbing and compromises at play forging the Constitution, the sheer Herculean task of getting this nation out of the cradle – portly, irascible, courageous John Adams was at the heart of it all. An enlightening, emotional, even inspiring read. ”
