Writings from the new nation 1784-1826
By: John Adams ; Gordon S. Wood, editor
Contributors: Wood, Gordon S., editor
Series: The Library of America -- 276; Library of America -- 276.
Publisher: Library of America
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 905
ISBN-13: 9781598534665
Subjects: Correspondence; Politics and government; Diaries; History
Other titles: John Adams :
Description: This final volume of a comprehensive three-volume edition makes his important writings from the early national period broadly available to general readers. Bringing together letters, diary excerpts, political essays, speeches, and presidential messages, Writings from the New Nation 17841826 illuminates Adams's service as a diplomat in the Netherlands and England; his eight years as vice president under Washington; and his tumultuous single term as president. The first person to win a contested presidential election and then to be defeated for reelection, Adams faced bitter criticism from both Jeffersonian Republicans and Hamiltonian Federalists while striving to prevent an undeclared naval conflict with Revolutionary France from escalating into full-scale war.
Notes: "Two companion Library of America volumes collect Adam's earlier writings: Revolutionary writings 1755-1775 and Revolutionary writings 1775-1783"--Book jacket.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Treaty Commissioner and minister to the Netherlands and to Great Britain, 1784-1788; title: Vice President, 1789-1797; title: President, 1797-1801; title: Retirement, 1801-1826.