John Adams and the American Revolution

For John Adams the years up to the age of forty - the crucial early years of our country's history - were his most active, interesting and decisive, and in this book Catherine Drinker Bowen recreates the man and his world to a miraculous degree. As Mrs. Bowen writes: "Why have I chosen to write about John Adams? Because he is the brightest, quickest, most honest man I have met in history. A revolutionist, ready to die for independence, yet a man who loved order, loved England indeed A man pre-eminently of hi time and century, Adams threw himself wholly into the action and passions of his day, never ceasing to learn, to read and study books and men He was a man worthy in brain and character to follow George Washington as President of the United States, yet a man I felt I could meet and talk to easily."