John Adams

John Adams

By
David McCullough
David McCullough
2001 • 751 pages

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30 books

History

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Fran
Food Politics
The Great Big Book of Horrible Things
The Long Summer
War before civilization
The Story of the Americas
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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73 books

Nonfiction

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Lory
Empty Mansions
How to Be a Victorian
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran

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48 books

Historical

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Lory
A Fugue in Time
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
The Penelopiad
Journey to the River Sea
An Appetite for Violets
Elizabeth, Elizabeth
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

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7 books

Biography

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Lory
A royal experiment
Chrysalis : Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis
How to Live
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
John Adams
Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy
Ich bin ein Geschichtenerzähler

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70 books

History

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1776
A People's History of the United States
The Souls of Black Folk
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
No easy walk
Malcolm X
Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II

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133 books

Non Fiction

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Unbroken
The Rite
Malcolm X
Killing Pablo
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Columbine
Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II

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19 books

Biography

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Stephen Waller
Into the Wild
Steve Jobs
Up From Slavery
Truman
Napoleon
Washington: A Life

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19 books

Presidents

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Brent Parkey
Wilson
An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963
Truman
Theodore Rex
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
The Path to Power
John Adams

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51 books

History Early Us

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Mary Brodd
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
John Adams
American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic
Revolutionaries : a new history of the invention of America
Empire of Liberty
Undaunted Courage
Memoir of a Revolutionary Soldier: The Narrative of Joseph Plumb Martin

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72 books

Biography

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Mary Brodd
American Sphinx
Churchill
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
John Adams
Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department
Truman
The Warrior and the Priest

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59 books

President Project

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Mary Brodd
Thomas Jefferson the art of power
Washington: A Life
John Quincy Adams
Henry Clay
Mr. Adams's Last Crusade: John Quincy Adams's Extraordinary Post-Presidential Life in Congress
James Monroe
Albion's Seed

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439 books

Library

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The Templar Legacy
Scotland: The Story of a Nation
The Complete Works
The Prince of the Marshes
Names My Sisters Call Me
Late for the Wedding

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The Book Thief
The Hunt for Red October
The Jester
The Hobbit
Native Son
Night

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445 books

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Travis
The 9/11 Commission Report
Orthodoxy
Mariel of Redwall
A Crown of Swords
Lord of Chaos
The Dispossessed
Anathem

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0 books

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Mandi
The Winter People
The Handmaid's Tale
Cirque Du Soleil
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
The Book Thief
Late for the Wedding
A Short History of Nearly Everything

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71 books

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For the Wolf
Airframe
The Catcher in the Rye
Truman
Mona Lisa Overdrive
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Crash

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104 books

Non Fiction

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Merle's door
The Waste Land, and Other Poems
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
Zoo story

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1,344 books

Want To Read Do Not Own

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Bitten by witch fever
The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Doomsday Book

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The Horse Dancer
One Plus One
The Last Letter from Your Lover
Still Me
The Girl You Left Behind
4:50 from Paddington

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1,067 books

History

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Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy

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123 books

American History

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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
John Adams
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
Washington: A Life
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
The Death and Life of Great American Cities

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155 books

Biography

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Henry Clay
Eisenhower : in War and Peace
Grant
On the Move: A Life
Chronicles: Volume One
Wishful Drinking
Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

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11 books

Presidential Bios

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Brittney
Washington: A Life
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson the art of power
James Madison : A Life Reconsidered
The last founding father
American Lion
Martin Van Buren and the Romantic Age of American Politics

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104 books

Pulitzer Prize-winning Biography

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Hardcover
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
The new Negro
Prairie fires
The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
The Pope and Mussolini
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
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