John Adams by David McCullough Paperback Book

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Author: David McCullough

Narrator: Edward Hermann

Format: Abridged-CD, Abridged-CD, Unabridged-CD

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Published: May 2001

Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Presidents & Heads Of State

Retail Price: $39.95

Discs: 9

Synopsis

The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author of Truman sheds new light on America's second president, chronicling the life and times of Adams's youth, his career as a Massachusetts farmer and lawyer, his marriage to Abigail, his rivalry with Thomas Jefferson, and his remarkable influence on the birth of the United States of America. Read by the author.

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