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Colossus of Independence.('John Adams')(Review)
David Mccullough's new biography of John Adams brings into sharper focus the life, works, and character of one of our nation's more neglected Founding Fathers.
John Adams, by David McCullough, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001,751 pages, hardbound, $35.00.
In John Adams, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer David McCullough has written a refreshing and interesting examination of one of the most prominent but least appreciated of America's Founding Fathers. The book is a needed corrective for the relative obscurity in which, sadly, Adams remains mired. Adams himself anticipated this. "Popularity was never my mistress, nor was I ever, or shall I ever be a ...
- Composer John Adams Discusses His Music
- Transcript from: NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday June 2, 1996 700+ words
...Liane Hansen speaks with composer John Adams about his award-winning violin...composer become a household name, but John Adams has managed to do it. A pioneer...sensational. Today, the music of John Adams is the most frequently programmed...
- The legacy of John Adams.
- Magazine article from: Presidential Studies Quarterly Knott, Stephen June 1, 2002 700+ words
John Adams. By David McCullough. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001. 751 pp. John Adams and the Founding of the Republic. Edited...the prime suspect in this cabal, with John Adams often playing a supporting role. In some...
- John Adams Life initiates stock buyback program.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire December 16, 1987 700+ words
JOHN ADAMS LIFE INITIATES STOCK BUYBACK PROGRAM LOS...PRNewswire/ -- The board of directors of John Adams Life Corporation (NASDAQ: JALC) today...that it has authorized its subsidiary, John Adams Life Insurance Company of America, to...
- John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty.(Review)
- Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books ROBERTS, TIMOTHY M. March 22, 1999 700+ words
Thompson, C. Bradley John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty Lawrence...Publication Date: November 1998 John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty seeks to explain and recover the importance of John Adams's major political writings. Its...
- Founding Fathers: John Adams Is in the House: McCullough's vivid take on our...
- Magazine article from: Newsweek Gates, David May 21, 2001 700+ words
...house in Quincy, Mass., where John Adams, the second president of the United...friend and rival Thomas Jefferson--John Adams died, right in this room. Yet on...time." McCullough's 736-page "John Adams," which will appear this month...
- John Adams slept here.(visitors flock to hometown of historical figure)(Brief...
- Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report Lord, Mary September 10, 2001 700+ words
Meet John Adams, farmer, Declaration of Independence...that David McCullough's biography, John Adams, sits atop bestseller lists (three months...Fathers never to own slaves. But it took John Adams to put the man on the map, says park...
- JOHN ADAMS.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Washington Monthly Waldman, Michael May 1, 2001 700+ words
JOHN ADAMS by David McCullough Simon & Schuster, $35.00 HISTORIANS WHO WRITE ABOUT John Adams often fall in love with him. In part...Revolution. There are no marble monuments to John Adams on the Mall. But it was Adams who picked...
- John Adams Life announces second-quarter and six-month results.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire August 14, 1987 700+ words
JOHN ADAMS LIFE ANNOUNCES SECOND-QUARTER AND SIX...LOS ANGELES, Aug. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- John Adams Life Corporation (NASDAQ: JALC), today...chairman of the board and president of John Adams Life Corporation, said, "Sales of our...
Source: HighBeam Research, Colossus of Independence.('John Adams')(Review)