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Historical person
1735–1826
John Adams was an American revolutionary leader, diplomat and second president of the United States. He advocated independence, negotiated abroad and later faced conflict with France and fierce domestic partisanship during his presidency.
In Jeff Shaara’s Rise to Rebellion, John Adams defends the soldiers accused in the killings, Benjamin Franklin attempts to preserve a workable imperial relationship in London, and Thomas Gage confronts resistance that his orders and troops repeatedly intensify.
In non-fiction, John Adams is discussed in Gore Vidal’s Inventing a Nation. In Gore Vidal’s Inventing a Nation, in this work of political history, Gore Vidal examines the revolutionary generation through George Washington, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, while also considering Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison.
Series
Jeff Shaara’s two-volume American Revolution sequence follows the colonies from the Boston Massacre and political resistance of the early 1770s through the British surrender at Yorktown. Rise to Rebellion concentrates on the transformation of lawyers, merchants and provincial leaders into revolutionaries; The Glorious Cause follows the Continental Army…
All books in this series
Non Fiction
Biographies, histories and other non-fiction are listed separately from the historical novels above.
