TY  - BOOK
N2  - 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.
AB  - 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.
T1  - John Adams :a life /
DA  - 1996.
CY  - New York :
AU  - Ferling, John E.
ET  - 1st Owl Book ed.
CN  - E322
CN  - E322
PB  - Henry Holt & Co.,
PP  - New York :
PY  - 1996.
N1  - Originally published: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 1992.
N1  - "An Owl book."
ID  - 314312
KW  - Presidents
SN  - 0805045767 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
SN  - 9780805045765 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
TI  - John Adams :a life /
LK  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/hol056/96011723.html
LK  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol055/96011723.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/hol056/96011723.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol055/96011723.html
ER  -