Full name: Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams

Author: Joseph J. Ellis Year: 1993 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Biographies, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780393311334 0393311333

A fresh look at this astute, likably quirky statesman, by the author of the Pulitzer Award-winning Founding Brothers and the National Book Award winning American Sphinx. "The most lovable and most laughable, the warmest and possibly the wisest of the founding fathers, John Adams knew himself as few men do and preserved his knowledge in a voluminous correspondence that still vibrates. Ellis has used it with great skill and perception not only to bring us the man, warts and all, but more importantly to reveal his extraordinary insights into the problems confronting the founders that resonate today in the republic they created." --Edmund S. Morgan, Sterling Professor of History Emeritus, Yale University Similar books: John Adams by James Grant John Adams by Page Smith Descent From Glory by Paul C. Nagel John Paul Jones by Evan Thomas John Adams and the American Revolution by Catherine Drinker Bowen Daniel Webster by Robert V. Remini Alexander Hamilton by Richard Brookhiser America's First Dynasty by Richard Brookhiser Revolutionary Summer by Joseph J. Ellis Fallen Founder by Nancy Isenberg Gentleman Revolutionary by Richard Brookhiser John Jay by Walter Stahr First Family by Joseph J. Ellis John Adams by John Ferling Samuel Adams by Ira Stoll John Winthrop by Francis J. Bremer The Quartet by Joseph J. Ellis The Wright Brothers by David McCullough Empire of the Summer Moon by S. C. Gwynne The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester