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by David McCullough (Author) "IN THE COLD, nearly colorless light of a New England winter, two men on horseback traveled the coast road below Boston, heading north..." (more)
Key Phrases: family letters, John Quincy, United States, New York (more...)
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Left to his own devices, John Adams might have lived out his days as a Massachusetts country lawyer, devoted to his family and friends. As it was, events swiftly overtook him, and Adams--who, David McCullough writes, was "not a man of the world" and not fond of politics--came to greatness as the second president of the United States, and one of the most distinguished of a generation of revolutionary leaders. He found reason to dislike sectarian wrangling even more