![]() ![]() Though at first, not impressed with Abigail, he soon grew to appreciate her and they married. In 1759, he met Abigail Smith, the younger sister of a woman his friend was courting. After passing the bar exam, John contributed political satires to a local paper. When his father sent him to Harvard at the age of sixteen, he expected John to become a minister, but John found himself drawn to law, which he thought offered him more chances at fame and intellectual glory. He excelled in his schooling but had a few instances of rebellion and clashing with teachers. John Adams was born in Massachusetts in 1735 to a strict religious family. According to McCullough, he originally intended the biography to include the lives of both John and Thomas Jefferson, but after uncovering a large trove of letters between John and his wife, Abigail, he shifted the focus to the lesser-known president. ![]() David McCullough’s award-winning biography, John Adams (2001), was the primary source for the HBO miniseries about the life of John Adams that premiered in 2008. ![]()
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