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From: The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, Fla.) (via Knight-Ridder/TribuneNews Service)
Date: 20020916
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Byline: Nancy Pate

FOUNDING FATHER

``John Adams,'' by David McCullough (Touchstone, $18.95, paperback): McCullough won a Pulitzer Prize for his comprehensive biography of our country's second president, a Massachusetts lawyer and family man whose accomplishments often have been overshadowed by George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. The rocky friendship between Adams and Jefferson is admirably chronicled, as is Adams' relationship with the other founding fathers and his lifelong love affair with wife Abigail. Independent and often irascible, Adams didn't see the ...

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