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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2203.John_Adams?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="John Adams" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1160801883m/2203.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2203.John_Adams?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">John Adams</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/693.David_McCullough">David McCullough</a><br/><br/>
  <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19289098?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a>
  rating: 5 of 5 stars<br/>This is an amazing book. I can't stop thinking about it and wish that I could meet and spend time with John and Abigail Adams. They are truly remarkable people. If they had lived today we might know just as much about their existence but less about their thoughts. They wrote hundreds of letters every year to each other and to many of their friends and family, but who writes like that today? It was through these letters and other records and journals that the author was able to piece together a detailed account of their lives.
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<br/>I'm not sure that any person contributed more to the birth of the United States than John Adams. It was at Adams' suggestion that Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence. Adams wrote the Massachusetts constitution upon which the U.S. constitution was based. Assigned by the government to live in Europe for several years, he helped to bring about the Treaty of Paris and arranged for the U.S. to borrow money from Holland, both actions helping the U.S. to achieve independence. He was the first U.S. ambassador to Great Britain and met with King George. He served as vice-president to Washington and then as President. He lived to see his son become the sixth president. John and Abigail both enjoyed living on their farm, simply and quietly, but because of his tremendous contributions to the emerging and independent country, for which he felt a great responsibility as a father toward a child, they were often thrust into high-profile lives. Throughout the tumult of politics they retained their humility and integrity despite the fact that the media had no more scruples then than it does now.
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This is an amazing book. I can't stop thinking about it and wish that I could meet and spend time with John and Abigail Adams. They are truly remarkable people. If they had lived today we might know just as much about their existence but less about their thoughts. They wrote hundreds of letters every year to each other and to many of their friends and family, but who writes like that today? It was through these letters and other records and journals that the author was able to piece together a detailed account of their lives.

I'm not sure that any person contributed more to the birth of the United States than John Adams. It was at Adams' suggestion that Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence. Adams wrote the Massachusetts constitution upon which the U.S. constitution was based. Assigned by the government to live in Europe for several years, he helped to bring about the Treaty of Paris and arranged for the U.S. to borrow money from Holland, both actions helping the U.S. to ...more

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