A look at the life and work of the second U.S. president discusses Adams' mind and personality, the events that shaped his thinking, his perspective on America'

Profiles John Adams, an influential patriot during the American Revolution who became the nation's first vice president and second president.

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER Following Thomas Jefferson from the drafting of the Declaration of Independence to his retirement in Monticello, Joseph J. Ellis unra

America's finest eighteenth-century student of political science, John Adams is also the least studied of the Revolution's key figures. By the time he became ou

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A landmark work of history explores how a group of greatly gifted but deeply flawed individuals—Hamilton, Bu