Papers of John Adams: Volumes 5 and 6 - August 1776 – July 1778

'Robert J. Taylor ...has produced two volumes of Adam's general papers in a style that does justice to the masters of the craft. The governing principle is that every document passes through the mind of the editor, requiring detailed placing and identification and often calling for small but significant essays in interpretation.

List of contents

About the author

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

Summary

These volumes document John Adams’s thinking and actions during the final years of his congressional service and take him through his first five months as a Commissioner in France in association with Benjamin Franklin and Arthur Lee.

Product details

• Authors: John Adams, Adams John
• Assisted by: Gregg L. Lint (Editor), Lint Gregg L. (Editor), Robert J. Taylor (Editor), Taylor Robert J. (Editor), Celeste Walker (Editor), Walker Celeste (Editor)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1986
• EAN: 9780674654433
• ISBN: 978-0-674-65443-3
• Weight: 2495 g
• Illustrations: 6 halftones
• Series: Adams Papers; Papers of John Adams; General Correspondence and Other Papers of the Adams Statesmen; Adams Papers; General Correspondence and Other Papers of the Adams Statesmen
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, HISTORY / World, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, General & world history, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, General and world history, Constitution: government & the state, Constitution: government and the state