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John Adams by David McCullough

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Monday, April 15 through Friday, May 10, 2002. Read by Jim Fleming.

John Adams said “The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people.” In writing about Adams, McCullough says “We call them the Founding Fathers, in tribute, but tend to see them as distant and a bit unreal, like figures in a costume pageant. Yet very real they were, real as all that stirred their ‘hearts and minds,’ and it has meaning in our time as never before.” David McCullough’s biography of John Adams brings them very much to life.

(Simon & Schuster; ISBN-10: 0684813637)

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