Papers of John Adams - June 1789 - February 1791

About the author

Sara Georgini is Series Editor for the Papers of John Adams of the Adams Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society.Sara Martin is Editor in Chief of the Adams Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society.R. M. Barlow is Assistant Editor for the Adams Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society.Gwen Fries is Assistant Production Editor for the Adams Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society.Amanda M. Norton (née Amanda A. Mathews) is Digital Production Editor for the Adams Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society.Neal E. Millikan is Series Editor for Digital Editions of the Adams Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society.Hobson Woodward is Series Editor for the Adams Family Correspondence of the Adams Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society.

Summary

John Adams’s shaping of the vice presidency dominates this volume of the Papers of John Adams, which chronicles a formative era in American government from June 1789 to February 1791. He held to federalist principles and staked out limits for his executive powers. His letters reveal firsthand the labor of nation-building in an age of constitutions.

Product details

• Authors: John Adams
• Assisted by: R. M. Barlow (Editor), Gwen Fries (Editor), Sara Georgini (Editor), Georgini Sara (Editor), Sara Martin (Editor), Martin Sara (Editor), Neal E. Millikan (Editor), Millikan Neal E. (Editor), Amanda Mathews Norton (Editor), Hobson Woodward (Editor), Woodward Hobson (Editor)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.07.2020
• EAN: 9780674244665
• ISBN: 978-0-674-24466-5
• No. of pages: 600
• Series: Adams Papers; General Correspondence and Other Papers of the Adams Statesmen
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Biography: historical, political & military, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State, HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Biography: historical, political and military