John Adams book

John Adams really loved life and sought to truly enjoy it. I felt heart broken knowing about his final days when he was ill and suffering from his eyesight. I love the fact that he shared life with others. He lived a simple life and worked very hard. He loved his books and his family, specially his wife, and his children, and friends. I felt his life was very difficult and he was often subject of vicious attacks. He did not waist one day in his life. I was really inspired by his desire to be happy with his life, even through hard times.
I think he loved his wife so much and the separation was a killer to him. He faced his greatest challenges without his sweet heart. His marriage was long, I loved the way he lived a life free from scandal, at least the moral ones compared to Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. His wife was his strength and support.
I learned a lot from his book. I really felt sorry when I read two of his children became alcoholics and essentially wasted their lives. I learned that a father's involvement in the raising of a family is essential. John Quincy went on to fame and became the nation's sixth President, both Thomas and Charles struggled through life. I believe that he blamed himself for their ways in life as a father by acknowledging that his long absences from the family deprived them of the father they needed.
I still think that religion was weird in Adam's mind. I had the feeling that he was more deist than a Christian. Mccullough is a very good communicator. It was one of the best biography I had ever read. Reading this book was pleasurable.