A fresh look at this astute, likably quirky statesman, by the author of the Pulitzer Award-winning Founding Brothers and the National Book Award winning American Sphinx.
"The most lovable and most laughable, the warmest and possibly the wisest of the founding fathers, John Adams knew himself as few men do and preserved his knowledge in a voluminous correspondence that still vibrates. Ellis has used it with great skill and perception not only to bring us the man, warts and all, but more importantly to reveal his extraordinary insights into the problems confronting the founders that resonate today in the republic they created." —Edmund S. Morgan, Sterling Professor of History Emeritus, Yale University
- ISBN10 0393311333
- ISBN13 9780393311334
- Publish Date 28 September 1994 (first published 3 November 1993)
- Publish Status Inactive
- Out of Print 13 November 2022
- Publish Country US
- Imprint WW Norton & Co
- Format Paperback
- Pages 288
- Language English