Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for biography, as well as an Audie Award. McCullough's portrait of Adams, the colossus of independence, is history on a grand scale. This epic biography of the man who became our second president is a touching love story as well as a tale of the American Revolution. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Truman has created a "masterpiece... wonderfully stirring... To [hear] it is to feel as if you are witnessing the birth of a country firsthand."—Booklist