Passionate Sage

The Character and Legacy of John Adams

By: Joseph J. Ellis

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Paperback | 17 January 2023 | Edition Number 1

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John Adams was unique among the nation's founders in leaving a record of his most intimate thoughts and feelings. Instinctively candid and politically incisive, Adams offers the clearest view of the ambitions and principles that drove the revolutionary generation. Passionate Sage offers a brilliant introduction to the second president: his politics, his affinities for family and friendship even with political opponents like Jefferson, and his enduring significance. "Ellis's palpable affection lends a pleasing glow to his profile of Adams, which is why Passionate Sage is his best book."--Judith Shulevitz, New York Times Book Review

"Impassioned and erudite. . . . A captivating portrait of this Massachusetts native as a wonderfully contrary genius possessed of an uncommon moral intelligence and farsighted political wisdom."--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

"The best portrait of a Revolutionary-era statesman."--Evan Thomas, Wall Street Journal

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"The most lovable and most laughable, the warmest and possibly the wisest of the founding fathers, John Adams knew himself as few men do and preserved his knowledge in a voluminous correspondence that still vibrates. Ellis has used it with great skill and perception not only to bring us the man, warts and all, but more importantly to reveal his extraordinary insights into the problems confronting the founders that resonate today in the republic they created." -- Edmund S. Morgan, Sterling Professor of History Emeritus, Yale University
"The best portrait of a Revolutionary-era statesman." -- Evan Thomas - Wall Street Journal
"Ellis's palpable affection lends a pleasing glow to his profile of Adams, which is why Passionate Sage is his best book." -- Judith Shulevitz - The New York Times Book Review

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