@article{314312,
      note = {Originally published: Knoxville : University of Tennessee  Press, 1992.},
      author = {Ferling, John E.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/314312},
      title = {John Adams : a life /},
      publisher = {Henry Holt & Co.,},
      abstract = {Better than any other full-scale biography to date,  Ferling's book places Adams in the context of his swirling  times and makes clear why he deserves our admiration for  his apolitical courage and stubborn independence. 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 research, Ferling  depicts a reluctant revolutionary, a leader who was deeply  troubled by the warfare that he helped to make, and a  fiercely independent statesman.},
      recid = {314312},
      pages = {viii, 535 p. :},
      address = {New York :},
      year = {1996},
}