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Author
Publisher
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
1977-<2018>
Language
English
Description
Vol. 14: John Adams reached Paris on October 26, 1782, for the final act of the American Revolution: the peace treaty. This volume chronicles his role in the negotiations and the decision to conclude a peace separate from France. Determined that the United States pursue an independent foreign policy, Adams's letters criticized Congress's naive confidence in France. But in April 1783, frustrated at delays over the final treaty and at real and imagined...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 276
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Author
Series
Capricorn books volume CAP 126
Publisher
Capricorn Books
Pub. Date
[1966]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
"In addition to being an uncompromising defender of liberty, esteemed diplomat, and successor to George Washington, John Adams was a passionate and prolific writer. Adams biographer John Patrick Diggins gathers a variety of his works in this original volume, including parts of his diary and autobiography, and selections from his correspondence with this wife, Abigail, Thomas Jefferson, and others. The Portable John Adams also features his most important...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 213
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"... includes the complete newspaper exchange between Novanglus (Adams) and Massachusettensis (loyalist Daniel Leonard), as well as extensive diary excerpts and characteristically frank personal letters"--Jacket.
Author
Series
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"Traces John Adams's career from his leading role in the debate over independence, [...] to his tireless efforts to establish the fledgling government of the United States and supply its army in the filed, to his crucial diplomatic service in Europe [...]. It includes his hightly influential 1776 pamphlet Thoughts on Government, dozens of his characteristically frank and revealing personal letters, [...] extensive diary excerpts. "--Jacket.
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