John Adams; Gregg L. Lint; C. James Taylor; Robert F. Karachuk; Hobson Woodward; Margaret A. Hogan; Sara B. Sikes; Claffe Harvard University Press (2010) Kovakantinen kirja
John Adams; Gregg L. Lint; C. James Taylor; Robert F. Karachuk; Hobson Woodward; Margaret A. Hogan; Neal E. Millikan; Sik Harvard University Press (2012) Kovakantinen kirja
Adams Family; Margaret A. Hogan; C. James Taylor; Karen N. Barzilay; Hobson Woodward; Mary T. Claffey; Robert F. Karachuk Harvard University Press (2009) Kovakantinen kirja
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.
