Author: John JayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The Correspondence and Public Papers of John Jay ...: 1781-1782
Author: John JayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The correspondence and public papers of John Jay
Author: John JayThe Correspondence and Public Papers of John Jay ...: 1794-1826
Author: John JayThe Correspondence and Public Papers of John Jay ...: 1782-1793
Author: John JayThe Correspondence and Public Papers of John Jay ...: 1782-1793
Author: John JayThe Selected Papers of John Jay: 1760-1779
Author: John JayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
John Jay (1745-1829) made contributions to all three branches of government, at both state and national levels. A leading representative of New York in the Continental Congress, he became one of the American commissioners who negotiated peace with Great Britain. He served the new republic as secretary for foreign affairs under the Articles of Confederation, as a contributor to the Federalist papers, as the first chief justice of the United States, as negotiator of the 1794 "Jay Treaty" with Great Britain, and as a two-term governor of the state of New York. In his personal life, Jay embraced a wide range of religious, social, and cultural concerns, including the abolition of slavery.--Publisher's description.
Selected Letters of John Jay and Sarah Livingston Jay
Author: John JayPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786445041
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
This collection of letters chronicles the personal lives of founding father John Jay and his wife, Sarah Livingston Jay, in the tumultuous times during and after the American Revolution. The letters showcase Sarah as a devoted wife and mother who also helped further her husband's political career. Their correspondence reveals the abiding love of husband and wife, their concern for their children, the dangers and difficulties of travel, descriptions of the lands they visited and events they witnessed, as well as a sense of the effort it took to survive in the era even with the buffer of wealth. The book includes essays on the Jay and Livingston families, family trees, and information about the character and appearance of both husband and wife,and other topics. Importantly, there are textual bridges between the letters where necessary.
The Correspondence and Public Papers of John Jay ...: 1763-1781
Author: John JayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
The Correspondence and Public Papers of John Jay
Author: John JayJohn Jay
Author: Walter StahrPublisher: Diversion Publishing Corp.
ISBN: 1938120515
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 611
Book Description
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