John Adams

From Lazer

John Adams the book was written in a easy to read and interesting style. This book is one of my favorite books and the longest books I have read. One should tackle this book in sections. This book becomes part of your life and you don't want it to end. In showing John Adams life, one sees from the book the main intentions of the US government and the reasons that it was built. The book also shows that from the beginning of the US government politics and the press were not much different than today. In going into John Adams personal life, one sees how different life was in the 1750s to 1820s. This book is for anyone who has ever wondered how the US government was created, why it was created, how the US broke from the British, and to see what the people involved had to go through.

Quotes

A government with a single legislative body would never do. There should be a representative assembly, an exact portrait in miniature of the people at large, but it must not have the whole legislative power, for the reason that like an individual with unchecked power, it could be subject to fits of humor, transports of passion, partialities of prejudice, A single assembly could grow avaricious exempt itself from burdens become ambitious and after some time vote itself perpetual.

~John Adams 1776

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study paintings, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.

~John Adams 1780