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Title:
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PAPERS OF JOHN ADAMS
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Volume: |
v. 15 |
By: |
John Adams |
Format: |
Hardback |

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£108.95 |
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£87.16 |
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ISBN 10: |
0674051238 |
ISBN 13: |
9780674051232 |
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Publisher: |
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
7 May, 2010 |
Series: |
Adams Papers |
Pages: |
592 |
Description: |
None of the founding fathers of America equals the candor of John Adams' observations of his eighteenth-century world. This title features Adams' letters that reveal his positions on the personalities and issues of his times. |
Synopsis: |
On September 3, 1783, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and John Jay signed the definitive Anglo-American peace treaty. Adams and his colleagues strived to establish a viable relationship between the new nation and its largest trading partner but were stymied by rising British anti-Americanism. Adams' diplomatic efforts were also complicated by domestic turmoil. Americans, in a rehearsal for the later Federalist-Antifederalist conflict over the United States Constitution, were debating the proper relationship between the central government and the states. Adams, a Federalist as early as 1783, argued persuasively for a government that honored its treaties and paid its foreign debts. But when bills far exceeding the funds available for their redemption were sent to Europe, he was forced to undertake a dangerous winter journey to the Netherlands to raise a new loan and save the United States from financial disaster. None of the founding fathers equals the candor of John Adams' observations of his eighteenth-century world. His letters, always interesting, reveal with absolute clarity Adams' positions on the personalities and issues of his times. |
Illustrations: |
8 halftones |
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US |
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The Belknap Press |
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