John Adams Audiobook on CD by David McCullough, Edward Herrmann

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John Adams

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Awards and Nominations

Pulitzer Prize
Ambassador Book Award/English-Speaking Union of the US (2002)
American Academy of Diplomacy Award (2001)

American Revolution Round Table Book Award (2001)
Christopher Award
Colonial Dames of America Award (2002)
Comm. of Mass. Board of Library Commissioners Certificate of Commendation (2001)
Dutch Treat Club Gold Medal for Lifetime Creative Achievement (2002)
Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award (2002)
Nelinet Award (2001)
New England Library and Information Network Award (2001)
Palm Beach Laureate Award (2002)
Phi Beta Kappa Book Award
Ruth Bogan Creative Living Award, M.V. (2002)
The Henry James Award/ Edith Wharton Women of Achievement Awards (2001)
The Holland Society Gold Medal for Distinguished Literacy Achievement (2002)
The Los Angles Public Library Literary Award (2002)
Theodore H. White Lecturer/Joan Shorenstein Center, JFK School of Government/Harvard University (2002)
Townsend Honoree/New England Society in the City of New York (2001)
William Bradford Award/Pilgrim Society

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Description

In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who rose to become the second president of the United States and saved the country from blundering into an unnecessary war; who was learned beyond all but a few and regarded by some as "out of his senses"; and whose marriage to the wise and valiant Abigail Adams is one of the most moving love stories in American history.

This is history on a grand scale -- a book about politics and war and social issues, but also about human nature, love, religious faith, virtue, ambition, friendship, and betrayal, and the far-reaching consequences of noble ideas. Above all, John Adams is an enthralling, often surprising story of one of the most important and fascinating Americans who ever lived.

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Praise

Gordon S. Wood The New York Review of Books By far the best biography of Adams ever written...McCullough's special gift as an artist is his ability to re-create past human beings in all their fullness and all their humanity. In John and Abigail he has found characters worthy of his talent.

Walter Isaacson Time A masterwork of storytelling.

Michiko Kakutani The New York Times Lucid and compelling...[Written] in a fluent narrative style that combines a novelist's sense of drama with a scholar's meticulous attention to the historical record.

Marie Arana The Washington Post McCullough is one of our most gifted living writers.

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