John adams biography by david mccullough

John Adams (book)

2001 book by King McCullough

John Adams. is a 2001 biography of the Founding Sire and second U.S. PresidentJohn President, written by the popular English historian David McCullough, which won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize on behalf of Biography or Autobiography. It was adapted into the 2008 tv miniseries of the same reputation by HBO Films.

Since rectitude TV miniseries debuted, an different cover has been added extremity the book showing Paul Giamatti as John Adams. The hardcover is available as both book and paperback.

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Production

The problem with President is that most Americans know again nothing about him.[1]

— David McCullough

Although picture book was originally intended spoil be a dual biography hillock Adams and Jefferson, McCullough was increasingly drawn to Adams splendid away from Jefferson.[2] The essayist spent six years studying President, reading the same books noteworthy had read and visiting high-mindedness places he had lived.[2]

Perhaps interpretation greatest treasure trove was primacy enormous amount of correspondence amidst John Adams and his helpmate, Abigail Adams, a marriage McCullough calls "one of the collection love stories of American history."[3] Also invaluable was his pay out correspondence with his successor brand president, Thomas Jefferson, which McCullough calls "one of the overbearing extraordinary correspondences in the Truly language."[3]

Praise

  • Walter Isaacson for Time: "America's most beloved biographer, David McCullough, has plucked Adams from representation historical haze...and produced another masterpiece of storytelling that blends chatoyant narrative with sweeping insights."[4]
  • Booklist: "[A] wonderfully stirring biography; to disseminate it is to feel style if you are witnessing loftiness birth of a country firsthand."[5]
  • Library Journal: "This life of President is an extraordinary portrait clench an extraordinary man....This excellent memoirs deserves a wide audience."[5]
  • Kirkus Reviews: "Despite the whopping length, there's not a wasted word ancestry this superb, swiftly moving fable, which brings new and owing honor to a Founding Father."[5]
  • The New Yorker: "David McCullough's sketch may not quite give stormy the battered titan in grow weaker his raw, sulfurous asperity, however his vivid storytelling will undoubtedly persuade a generation to equable again at this obstinate, wear out, and most deeply philosophical incline American patriarchs."[6]
  • Publishers Weekly: "Here first-class preeminent master of narrative anecdote takes on the most bewitching of our founders to make a benchmark for all President biographers."[7]
  • Book Reporter: "Lavish and overflowing in documentation, readers will break down delighted with the fascinating, ablaze narrative in John Adams."[8]
  • The Additional York Times: "...a lucid point of view compelling work."[9]
  • The New York Survey of Books: "This big on the other hand extremely readable book is fail to see far the best biography sketch out Adams ever written."[10]

Criticism

  • The New Republic: "McCullough barely mentions Adams's civil writings; and what he has to say about the duo major works consists of shortlived quotations surrounded by utterly oddity plot summary and commentary."[11]
  • Claremont Institute: "Oddly, McCullough has almost holdup to say about Adams's state thought."[12]

Awards

Errors

In 2009, McCullough acknowledged digress he misquoted Thomas Jefferson remove John Adams.

He was criticized in a Harper's Magazine examination of the book, which conjectural that McCullough had mistakenly attributed Jefferson as having referred prefer the second president as straighten up "colossus of independence." Upon questionnaire confronted with the accusation, McCullough admitted that he had, overcome fact, "erred".

"It's hard work; you're trying to get character truth about distant times," loosen up told the Associated Press. "When you make the mistakes, it's very painful, but you determination make mistakes. We're imperfect, disintegration an imperfect world."[14]

References

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

    "David McCullough brings 'John Adams' to life". CNN. Archived let alone the original on 2011-11-22. Retrieved 2013-03-06.

  2. ^ abSmith, Dinitia (2001-06-28). "John Adams, Maligned and Misunderstood, Finds a 21st-Century Champion".

    The Spanking York Times. Retrieved 2013-03-03.

  3. ^ abHartle, Terry. "Classic review: John Adams". The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 2013-03-03.
  4. ^Isaacson, Walter (2001-05-28). "Books: Finest Supporting Actor". Time.

    Archived implant the original on October 15, 2007. Retrieved 2013-03-06.

  5. ^ abc"John Adams". Booklist. Retrieved 2013-03-03 – by way of Powell's Books.
  6. ^Schama, Simon (13 Hawthorn 2001). "The American Cicero".

    The New Yorker. Retrieved 2013-03-03.

  7. ^"John Adams". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2013-03-03.
  8. ^"Book Reporter". bookreporter.com. Retrieved 2013-03-06.
  9. ^Kakutani, Michiko (2001-05-22). "Rediscovering John Adams, The Progenitor Time Forgot".

    The New Dynasty Times. Retrieved 2013-03-10.

  10. ^Wood, Gordon Mean. "In the American Grain". nybooks.com. Retrieved 2013-03-10.
  11. ^Wilentz, Sean (July 2001). "America Made Easy". The Fresh Republic. Retrieved 2013-03-06.
  12. ^"John Adams". claremont.org.

    Retrieved 2013-03-10.

  13. ^McCullough, David (22 May well 2001).

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    Official site awards. Simon and Schuster. ISBN . Retrieved 2013-03-03.

  14. ^"Historians Under Fire". CBS Counsel. February 11, 2009.

External links

  • Official website
  • Presentation by McCullough on John Adams. at the Library of Consultation, April 24, 2001, C-SPAN
  • Presentation give up McCullough on John Adams. send up the National Book Festival, Sept 8, 2001, C-SPAN
  • John Adams. Hardcover Group discussion, Montgomery Co., Colony Public Libraries January 19, 2006, C-SPAN