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

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Excerpt from Memoir of the Life, Character, and Writings of John Adams: Read March 16, 1827 in the Capitol in the City of Washington at the Request of the Columbian Institute, and Published at Their Order He saw that the honor Of his country was at stake, and he rejoiced in the Opportunity Of showing, to the world, that the cause of America did not depend upon a tempo rary excitement, which could stifle the voice of justice but upon the sober, steady, persevering, determination Of the people to support their rights. He and his friend Quincy were then among the most popular members of the bar; and the Opinion entertained Of their integrity by the Opposite party', could not have been more clearly evinced, than by thus selecting them as counsel for the supposed victims of popular indignation. The counsel managed the cause with great ability, and satisfied a jury, taken from amidst the exasperated multitude, that it was a case Of justifiable homicide. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This book, a free-standing companion to Bernstein's 2003 biography Thomas Jefferson, responds to the public curiosity about Adams, his life, and his work for those intrigued by popular-culture portrayals of Adams in the Broadway musical 1776 and the HBO television miniseries John Adams. As with Bernstein's other work (e.g., The Founding Fathers: A Very Short Introduction), it is a clear, scholarly, concise, well-written, and well-researched account of Adams's life, career, and thought addressing anyone seeking to learn more about him.