Papers of John Adams (Adams Papers) (Volume 15) - Hardcover

Adams, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674051238 ISBN 13: 9780674051232

Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 2010

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Gregg L. Lint is Series Editor of the Papers of John Adams at the Massachusetts Historical Society.

About this edition

• Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0674051238
• ISBN 13: 9780674051232
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 592
• Editor: Lint Gregg L., Taylor C. James, Karachuk Robert F., Woodward Hobson, Hogan Margaret A., Sikes Sara B., Claffey Mary T., Barzilay Karen N.