Arguments about past presidents shape the nation’s present understanding of itself, and hence its unfolding future. In recent ...

As David McCullough points out in his biography John Adams, the college then consisted of four buildings and seven faculty members. At Harvard, Adams cultivated his appetite for reading and ...

McCullough's biography of Harry Truman won him a Pulitzer, as did his most recent biography of another president, John Adams. David McCullough throws himself into the research of his subjects, tracing ...

John Adams called the Alien and Sedition Acts ... There was, as Adams' biographer David McCullough explains, "rampant fear of the enemy within." Partisanship had grown fierce.