John Adams by David McCullough
This was a good book. I didn't know much about Adams, other than the basic trivia but I grew to admire him as a man. We could use a John Adams right now. There isn't much about Adam's faith, but from what is there I believe that he may have been a Christian man.
He had a hard time as a politician but he persevered. Adams put the task of governing ahead of personal pleasure, ease, and finances. He had many critics but stayed the course with manly determination. Think about it -- John Adams had a very difficult undertaking as being the first Vice President under George Washington and then the first President after George Washington. Neither proposition would have been easy and took a humble man, one who loved his country more that his pride, to have achieved it. Good book.
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