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Book Review from page 10 You will also learn much more about Alexander Hamilton, before he was finally able to send for her. Abigail completely
James Madison, Thomas Paine and others than you knew captivated Jefferson, who adored her and found her to be
former be separated into a second House called the Senate... before. Importantly, you will also recognize that as much as wise, charming, a wonderful manager of her household, and a
and, just as a scale needs a hand to hold the two ends in times change, there are some things that never do: perfect wife and mother. It was she who convinced Jefferson
balance, a third branch of government – who would later “Since the inauguration of the new president was not until – when he was assigned to join them in France – to send for
be named a president – would be elected as an objective, March 4, 1801, Adams had several months remaining in his his young daughter, Polly, so she could be close to her father.
honest representative of the people to mediate between the term. The lame-duck Federalist Congress passed a Judiciary She arrived with her maid, the slave Sally Hemings.
two Houses. Finally, a judiciary branch would be assigned Act and other legislation that created six new circuit courts One day, at the Adamses’ home in France, Jefferson
to interpret the laws wisely and fairly. with sixteen new judges along with many marshals and district remarked that he had seen a small statue of Venus while
As it later developed, Adams so feared the natural attorneys and justices of the peace. Before surrendering the shopping and had thought of purchasing it for Abigail, but
ambitious inclinations of the aristocratic Senate members to presidency to Jefferson, Adams appointed Federalists to these decided against it because “it would be inappropriate to have
seek glory, fame and wealth, that he began to lean toward a new offices, at the same time selecting his new secretary of two Venuses at the same table.”
stronger, almost monarchial presidency when it came time to state, John Marshall, as chief justice of the United States. I mentioned at the beginning of this review how impressive
elect a successor to George Washington. For Jefferson, who Because Adams signed the commissions of many of these this book is. I refer to the incredible amount of research – surely,
believed in the inherent goodness of the common man – and appointments shortly before Jefferson’s inauguration, the years – that have made it possible for Gordon S. Wood to include
who had lived too long under a monarch, from whom his new infuriated Republicans exaggeratedly labeled them ‘midnight on virtually every page so many quotes from letters, diaries, etc.,
nation had recently declared its independence – the idea of appointments’ and vowed to repudiate the Judiciary Act as in these and other of their contemporaries’ own words, that we
such a presidency was heresy ... and the first step towards the soon as possible.” feel we are truly living these experiences with them.
breakup of their longstanding friendship. After more than a decade of cold silence between Jefferson There are more than 1,000 footnoted reference sources
But there is so much more, including the enormous and Adams, at the urging of their mutual friend, Dr. Benjamin listed at the end of the book, which attests to the extensive
influence of the French Revolution on the political scene in Rush, finally, after the two former presidents had retired from degree of such research! Every bit of it shows in the final
the young America. Adams was so committed to the other public life they began a long series of correspondence, though work. There is also a section of portraits and illustrations.
side, and Jefferson and his new Republicans so supportive they never again met in person. But the author has saved the very best part of his book
of the revolutionaries, that when Adams became president Other histories have made clear the important role that for the last chapter, in which he explains the reasons for his
to succeed Washington, and rumors persisted that the new Abigail Adams played in her husband’s life. The author here final sentence, which I have noted above—and to think about
successful French Republic had designs on our continent, underscores that, pointing out many hundreds of letters that whom it is that future generations will honor. I leave those
there were many Americans who were so angry about foreign she and John Adams wrote to each other during the many reasons for you to discover, and to relate to the present state
meddling and interference in our political life that they began years they were apart while he served in the Continental of our nation today. It is very much worth your while to do
threatening Jefferson and his Republicans as traitors who were Congress, and again, before the French Revolution, when so, recognizing how our time will be judged in tomorrow’s
going to turn sides. he was assigned to France and England to arrange treaties, history books.
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