Diary and Autobiography of John Adams

by John Adams

Book Overview

John Adams's Diary, partially published in the 1850s, has proved a quarry of information on the rise of Revolutionary resistance in New England, the debates in the early Continental Congresses, and the diplomacy and financing of the American Revolution; but it has remained unfamiliar to the wider public. "It is an American classic," Zolt n Haraszti said recently, "about which Americans know next to nothing." Yet the Diary's historical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067496778X
• ISBN13: 9780674967786
• Release Date: December 1961
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Weight: 2.52 lbs.