John Adams: A Biography in His Own Words

This entertaining biography has been compiled from The Adams Papers, a scholarly edition of John Adams writings. Lengthy extracts from Adams's Autobiographies, diaries, letters, essays, and state papers have been fashioned into an informative narrative. This volume contains nearly 300 illustrations-period woodcuts and engravings, contemporary cartoons, portraits, sketches and pages from historic documents and old books. ~ From dust cover.