John Adams: Party of One

This biography follows John Adams from a Massachusetts farm and the Boston bar through the Continental Congress, wartime diplomacy in Europe, the vice-presidency, and a single term as president. Grant treats Adams as a man who held office without a durable party: a revolutionary who distrusted popular passion, a diplomat who raised loans in the Netherlands, and a president facing France, faction, and the politics of debt and taxation. The narrative gives weight to legal work, correspondence with Abigail, and the rivalry with Jefferson and Hamilton. It is a political and intellectual life of the second president, not a general history of the early republic.

Three-quarter bound brown cloth with paper cover printed with a portrait in brown tones. Dark brown slipcase.