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John Adams by David Mccullough Publisher Comments 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 -- "the colossus of independence," as Thomas Jefferson called him --... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover 
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John Adams by David McCullough From Powells.com David McCullough is our most dependable presidential biographer. Each of his efforts has been a resounding success, combining popular appeal with literary accolades. Mornings on Horseback, about Teddy Roosevelt, won the National Book Award, his... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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First Family: Abigail and John Adams (Vintage) by Joseph J. Ellis Publisher Comments In this rich and engrossing account, John and Abigail Adams come to life against the backdrop of the Republic’s tenuous early years. Drawing on over 1,200 letters exchanged between the couple, Ellis tells a story both personal and panoramic.... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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First Family: Abigail and John Adams by Joseph J. Ellis Publisher Comments The Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling author of Founding Brothers and His Excellency brings Americas preeminent first couple to life in a moving and illuminating narrative that sweeps through the American Revolution and the republics tenuous early... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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John Adams: Party of One by James L Grant Publisher Comments An acute examination of a paradoxical U.S. president. John Adams was an undiplomatic diplomat and an impolitic politician--a fierce revolutionary yet a detached and reluctant leader of the nation he helped to found. Few American public figures have ever... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Portia: The World of Abigail Adams by Edith B Gelles Publisher Comments ... best-of-all-biographies of Abigail Adams... --American Historical Review Portia, a new study of Abigail Adams--modern feminism's favorite Founding Mother--is a refreshing change of pace. --San Francisco Chronicle ... very well done, highly perceptive,... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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John Adams: A Life by John Ferling Publisher Comments John Ferling's masterful John Adams: A Life is the most comprehensive single-volume biography of the man who succeeded George Washington in the presidency and shepherded the fragile new nation through the most dangerous of times. Drawing on extensive... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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John Adams (10 Edition) by Ferling Publisher Comments John Ferling has nearly forty years of experience as a historian of early America. The author of acclaimed histories such as A Leap into the Dark and Almost a Miracle, he has appeared on many TV and film documentaries on this pivotal period of our... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Library of America #214: John Adams: Revolutionary Writings 1775-1783 by John Adams Publisher Comments This second of two volumes gathering the essential writings of one of the towering figures of the American Revolution traces John Adams's career from his leading role in the debate over independence (he was "our Colossus on the floor," remembered Thomas... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover
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John Adams: Party of One by James Grant Publisher Comments An acute examination of a paradoxical U.S. president. John Adams was an undiplomatic diplomat and an impolitic politician--a fierce revolutionary yet a detached and reluctant leader of the nation he helped to found. Few American public figures have ever... (read more) List Price $42.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty (American Political Thought) by C Bradley Thompson Synopsis America's finest eighteenth-century student of political science, John Adams is also the least studied of the Revolution's key figures. By the time he became our second president, no American had written more about our government and not even Jefferson... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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Abigail and John Adams: The Americanization of Sensibility by G J Barker Benfield Publisher Comments During the many years that they were separated by the perils of the American Revolution, John and Abigail Adams exchanged hundreds of letters. Writing to each other of public events and private feelings, loyalty and love, revolution and parenting, they... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $23.00 Used - Hardcover
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John Adams by David G. McCullough Publisher Comments The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian 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... (read more) Your price: $14.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams by Joseph J Ellis Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Abigail Adams by Woody Holton Publisher Comments Winner of the Bancroft Prize In this vivid new biography of Abigail Adams, the most illustrious woman of America's founding era, prize-winning historian Woody Holton offers a sweeping reinterpretation of Adams's life story and of women's roles in the... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Dearest Friend: A Life of Abigail Adams by Lynne Withey Publisher Comments "Dearest Friend" is the biography of Abigail Adams, the unschooled minister's daughter who became the most influential woman in Revolutionary America. Rich with excerpts from her incomparable letters and alive with the ferment of a new nation, "Dearest... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $3.25 Used - Hardcover
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The Letters of John and Abigail Adams by John Adams Publisher Comments Reflecting more than fifty years in the lives of John and Abigail Adams, a collection of remarkable letters provide an intimate portrait of an important early American family and an incisive, personal look at life in America before, during, and after the... (read more) Your price: $13.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Abigail Adams (09 Edition) by Holton Publisher Comments The New York Times Book Review, Editors ChoiceAmerican Heritage, Best of 2009In this vivid new biography of Abigail Adams, the most illustrious woman of the founding era, Bancroft Award-winning historian Woody Holton offers a sweeping reinterpretation of... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Abigail & John: Portrait of a Marriage by Edith Belle Gelles Publisher Comments Married in 1764, Abigail and John Adams worked side by side for a decade, raising a family while John became one of the most prosperous, respected lawyers in Massachusetts. When his duties as a statesman and diplomat during the Revolutionary War... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams by Joseph J. Ellis Publisher Comments John Adams, one of the Founding Fathers of our nation and its second president, spent nearly the last third of his life in retirement grappling with contradictory views of his place in history and fearing his reputation would not fare well in the... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $14.16 Google eBooks - Electronic
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