If you like biographies...

...then please rent or buy the HBO miniseries John Adams. I cannot overstate how well the series represents the recent McCullough biography, though I am less certain how well the series represents what his life was actually like, as I have only read that one biogrpahy. Since a major theme of the book and the series was Adams' perception of his historical legacy, I think McCullough went to great length the accurately portray this flawed founding father who I greatly respect and with whom can identify.

Finally, in the last episode, when Abigail dies eight years before John does, Cami and I cried harder than we had ever cried in a movie. The friendship that McCullough and the director portrayed between the two made her death and his loss truly heartbreaking.