John Adams's Republic av Richard Alan Ryerson

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<p><b>This trailblazing study explores Adams¿s political thought across his entire career in law and public service.</b></p><p>Winner of the Sally and Morris Lasky Prize of The Center for Political History Lebanon Velley College</p><p>Scholars have examined John Adams¿s writings and beliefs for generations, but no one has brought such impressive credentials to the task as Richard Alan Ryerson in<i> John Adams¿s Republic</i>. The editor-in-chief of the Massachusetts Historical Society¿s Adams Papers project for nearly two decades, Ryerson offers readers of this magisterial book a fresh, firmly grounded account of Adams¿s political thought and its development.</p><p>Of all the founding fathers, Ryerson argues, John Adams may have worried the most about the problem of social jealousy and political conflict in the new republic. Ryerson explains how these concerns, coupled with Adams¿s concept of executive authority and his fear of aristocracy, deeply influenced his political mindset. He we