Walter Stahr

John Jay (eBook, ePUB)

Founding Father

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Seward and Stanton comes the definitive biography of John Jay: "Wonderful" (Walter Isaacson, New York Times-bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci). John Jay is central to the early history of the American Republic. Drawing on substantial new material, renowned biographer Walter Stahr has written a full and highly readable portrait of both the public and private man-one of the most prominent figures of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. "The greatest founders-such as Washington and Jefferson-have kept even the greatest of the second tier of the nation's founding generation in the shadows. But now John Jay, arguably the most important of this second group, has found an admiring, skilled student in Stahr... Since the last biography of Jay appeared 60 years ago, a mountain of new knowledge about the early nation has piled up, and Stahr uses it all with confidence and critical detachment. Jay had a remarkable career. He was president of the Continental Congress, secretary of foreign affairs, a negotiator of the treaty that won the United States its independence in 1783, one of three authors of The Federalist Papers, first chief justice of the Supreme Court and governor of his native New York... [Stahr] places Jay once again in the company of America's greatest statesmen, where he unquestionably belongs." - Publishers Weekly "Even-handed... Riveting on the matter of negotiating tactics, as practiced by Adams, Jay and Franklin." - The Economist "Stahr has not only given us a meticulous study of the life of John Jay, but one very much in the spirit of the man... Thorough, fair, consistently intelligent, and presented with the most scrupulous accuracy. Let us hope that this book helps to retrieve Jay from the relative obscurity to which he has been unfairly consigned." -Ron Chernow, author of Alexander Hamilton

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Diversion Books
• Seitenzahl: 514
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781938120510
• Artikelnr.: 53789049

Autorenporträt

Walter Stahr was born in Massachusetts and grew up in Southern California. He studied at the Phillips Exeter Academy, Stanford University, the Kennedy School of Government, and Harvard Law School. For twenty-five years, he worked as a lawyer, both in Washington and the Far East, both in government and private practice. He was working as a lawyer while researching and writing his first book, a biography of John Jay, published in 2005. His second book, a biography of William Henry Seward, was published in 2012, and his third, on Edwin McMasters Stanton, was published in August 2017. Walter Stahr lives in Newport Beach, California, with his wife, Dr. Masami Miyauchi Stahr, who teaches mathematics at St. Margaret's Episcopal School in San Juan Capistrano. His website is walterstahr.com.

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 New York
2 The Law
3 Resistance Leader
4 Revolutionary Leader
5 President of the Continental Congress
6 Minister to Spain
7 Peace Commissioner
8 American in Paris
9 Secretary for Foreign Affairs
10 Home and Society
11 Federalist
12 First Chief Justice
13 Envoy to England
14 Governor of New York
15 Retirement
16 Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography
Index