![]() ![]() After the Revolution, though he was quick to yield to the rebellion's military leader, George Washington, part of the reason that the New England states enjoyed influence in a government dominated by Virginians was the force of Adams's character. Adams gained an admirable reputation for fearlessness and for devotion not only to his cause but also to his beloved wife Abigail. ![]() ![]() John Adams, to gauge by the letters and diaries from which McCullough liberally quotes, did not exactly go out of his way to assume a leadership role in the tumultuous years of the American Revolution, though he was always “ambitious to excel.” Neither, however, did he shy from what he perceived to be a divinely inspired historical necessity he took considerable personal risks in spreading the American colonists’ rebellion across his native Massachusetts. A great, troubled, and, it seems, overlooked president receives his due from the Pulitzer-winning historian/biographer McCullough ( Truman, 1992, etc.). ![]()
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