MixedThe New York Times Book ReviewMcCullough\'s reckoning all but ignores the irascibility that undermined Adams\'s reputation among his contemporaries...The result is an admirable but curiously flat John Adams ... John Adams doubted that historians would ever record the history of the Revolution accurately. Now, 175 years after his death, we can at last give Adams the esteem he deserves. It remains true nonetheless that the wonderfully congenial subject of McCullough\'s carefully researched, lovingly written biography is more consistently companionable, and also less interesting, than John Adams was in his own time.
