The Education of John Adams

by R B Bernstein and R.B. Bernstein

Book Overview

The Education of John Adams is the first biography of John Adams by a biographer with legal training. It examines his origins in colonial Massachusetts, his education, and his struggle to choose a career and define a place for himself in colonial society. It explores the flowering of his legal career and the impact that law had on him and his understanding of himself; his growing involvement with the American Revolution as polemicist, as lawyer, as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199740232
• ISBN13: 9780199740239
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.8" x 8.5"