No family in three generations has contributed so much to American
history as the Adamses. John, John Quincy, and Charles Francis,
despite periods of doubt, knew that history, if not their
contemporaries, would recognize their accomplishments. When the
Adams Papers series is complete, the writings of these three
statesmen will have been examined thoroughly.
Aside from the "Legal Papers of John Adams," published in 1965,
these two volumes are the first in Series III: General
Correspondence and Other Papers of the Adams Statesmen. Volumes 1
and 2 of the "Papers of John Adams" include letters to and from
friends and colleagues, reports of committees on which he served,
his polemical writings, published and unpublished, and state papers
to which he made a contribution.
All of Adams' newspaper writings, including 'A Dissertation on
the Canon and the Feudal Law, ' are in these two volumes. In
addition to being a condemnation of the Stamp Act, the
"Dissertation" is shown to be one of the building blocks of the
theory of a commonwealth of independent states under the king,
which reaches complete statement in the Novanglus letters. For the
first time, all thirteen of these letters appear in full with
annotation.
The period September 1755--April 1775 covers Adams' public
service in Braintree and Boston town meetings, the Massachusetts
House of Representatives, the First Continental Congress, and the
First Provincial Congress of Massachusetts. During this time his
political future was being shaped by circumstances not always of
his choosing. He hesitated at first at the threshold of a public
career, political ambition in conflict with concern for his
family's well--being. But asthe confrontation with Great Britain
sharpened, the crisis became acute; no choice remained. For Adams
there was no shirking the path of duty.
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