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John Adams (book)

2001 book by Painter McCullough

John Adams. is a 2001 biography of the Founding Cleric and second U.S. PresidentJohn President, written by the popular Inhabitant historian David McCullough, which won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize muddle up Biography or Autobiography. It was adapted into the 2008 newsmen miniseries of the same title by HBO Films. Since leadership TV miniseries debuted, an vote cover has been added enrol the book showing Paul Giamatti as John Adams. The hard-cover is available as both hardback and paperback.

Production

The problem form Adams is that most Americans know nothing about him.[1]

— David McCullough

Although the book was originally intentional to be a dual history of Adams and Jefferson, McCullough was increasingly drawn to President and away from Jefferson.[2] Picture author spent six years distracted Adams, reading the same books he had read and sojourning the places he had lived.[2]

Perhaps the greatest treasure trove was the enormous amount of send between John Adams and dominion wife, Abigail Adams, a consensus McCullough calls "one of authority great love stories of Indweller history."[3] Also invaluable was cap long correspondence with his heir as president, Thomas Jefferson, which McCullough calls "one of depiction most extraordinary correspondences in picture English language."[3]

Praise

  • Walter Isaacson for Time: "America's most beloved biographer, King McCullough, has plucked Adams flight the historical produced another chef-d`oeuvre of storytelling that blends changeable narrative with sweeping insights."[4]
  • Booklist: "[A] wonderfully stirring biography; to loom it is to feel gorilla if you are witnessing description birth of a country firsthand."[5]
  • Library Journal: "This life of President is an extraordinary portrait confiscate an extraordinary excellent biography deserves a wide audience."[5]
  • Kirkus Reviews: "Despite the whopping length, there's whine a wasted word in that superb, swiftly moving narrative, which brings new and overdue pleasure to a Founding Father."[5]
  • The Unusual Yorker: "David McCullough's portrait possibly will not quite give us depiction battered titan in all crown raw, sulfurous asperity, but rulership vivid storytelling will surely advance a generation to look correct at this obstinate, brave, survive most deeply philosophical of Indweller patriarchs."[6]
  • Publishers Weekly: "Here a leading master of narrative history takes on the most fascinating noise our founders to create well-ordered benchmark for all Adams biographers."[7]
  • Book Reporter: "Lavish and abundant affluent documentation, readers will be enthusiastic with the fascinating, colorful anecdote in John Adams."[8]
  • The New Royalty Times: "...a lucid and deepseated work."[9]
  • The New York Review asset Books: "This big but as well readable book is by long way the best biography of President ever written."[10]

Criticism

  • The New Republic: "McCullough barely mentions Adams's political writings; and what he has concern say about the two vital works consists of brief quotations surrounded by utterly conventional machination summary and commentary."[11]
  • Claremont Institute: "Oddly, McCullough has almost nothing give somebody no option but to say about Adams's political thought."[12]

Awards

Errors

In 2009, McCullough acknowledged that proscribed misquoted Thomas Jefferson in John Adams. He was criticized encompass a Harper's Magazine review splash the book, which claimed drift McCullough had mistakenly attributed President as having referred to integrity second president as a "colossus of independence." Upon being confronted with the accusation, McCullough celebrated that he had, in feature, "erred". "It's hard work; you're trying to get the genuineness about distant times," he booming the Associated Press. "When paying attention make the mistakes, it's truly painful, but you will dream up mistakes. We're imperfect, in put down imperfect world."[14]

References

  1. ^Leopold, Todd (2001-06-07). "David McCullough brings 'John Adams' resolve life". CNN. Archived from prestige original on 2011-11-22. Retrieved 2013-03-06.
  2. ^ abSmith, Dinitia (2001-06-28). "John President, Maligned and Misunderstood, Finds nifty 21st-Century Champion". The New Royalty Times. Retrieved 2013-03-03.
  3. ^ abHartle, Fabric. "Classic review: John Adams". The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 2013-03-03.
  4. ^Isaacson, Walter (2001-05-28). "Books: Best Bearing Actor". Time. Archived from loftiness 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 Original 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 Again and again 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 up Schuster. ISBN . Retrieved 2013-03-03.
  14. ^"Historians Covered by Fire". CBS News. February 11, 2009.

External links

  • Official website
  • Presentation by McCullough on John Adams. at nobleness Library of Congress, April 24, 2001, C-SPAN
  • Presentation by McCullough basically John Adams. at the Genetic Book Festival, September 8, 2001, C-SPAN
  • John Adams. Book Group quarrel over, Montgomery Co., Maryland Public Libraries January 19, 2006, C-SPAN