{"product_id":"making-the-presidency","title":"Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents That Forged the Republic by Lindsay M. Chervinsky","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn authoritative account of the second president of the United States that shows how John Adams's leadership and legacy defined the office for those who followed and ensured the survival of the American republic.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe United States of 1797 faced enormous challenges, provoked by enemies foreign and domestic. The father of the new nation, George Washington, left his vice president, John Adams, with relatively little guidance and impossible expectations to meet. Adams was confronted with intense partisan divides, debates over citizenship, fears of political violence, potential for foreign conflict with France and Britain, and a nation unsure that the presidency could even work without Washington at the helm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMaking the Presidency \u003c\/em\u003eis an authoritative exploration of the second US presidency, a period critical to the survival of the American republic. Through meticulous research and engaging prose, Lindsay Chervinsky illustrates the unique challenges faced by Adams and shows how he shaped the office for his successors. One of the most qualified presidents in American history, he had been a legislator, political theorist, diplomat, minister, and vice president--but he had never held an executive position. Instead, the quixotic and stubborn Adams would rely on his ideas about executive power, the Constitution, politics, and the state of the world to navigate the hurdles of the position. He defended the presidency from his own often obstructionist cabinet, protected the nation from foreign attacks, and forged trust and dedication to election integrity and the peaceful transfer of power between parties, even though it cost him his political future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOffering a portrait of one of the most fascinating and influential periods in US history, \u003cem\u003eMaking the Presidency \u003c\/em\u003eis a must-read for anyone interested in the evolution of the presidency and the creation of political norms and customs at the heart of the American republic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003eA Note on Language Introduction \u003cbr\u003eChapter One: An Address to the People of the United States \u003cbr\u003eChapter Two: Washington Recedes \u003cbr\u003eChapter Three: The Die Is Cast \u003cbr\u003eChapter Four: The \"Sublimest Thing\" Ever Exhibited in America \u003cbr\u003eChapter Five: A Scene of Ambition \u003cbr\u003eChapter Six: A Dishonorable Infidelity \u003cbr\u003eChapter Seven: Expect Nothing but the Most Unqualified Injustice \u003cbr\u003eChapter Eight: Not a Sixpence! \u003cbr\u003eChapter Nine: Poured in from All Quarters \u003cbr\u003eChapter Ten: Massacre the Inhabitants \u003cbr\u003eChapter Eleven: Decisive Measures \u003cbr\u003eChapter Twelve: The \"Majic\" of His Name \u003cbr\u003eChapter Thirteen: The Tocsin of Insurrection \u003cbr\u003eChapter Fourteen: All Evidence That They Are Sincere \u003cbr\u003eChapter Fifteen: Solely the President's Act \u003cbr\u003eChapter Sixteen: Struck by a Thunderbolt \u003cbr\u003eChapter Seventeen: The Spirit in the City is Very High \u003cbr\u003eChapter Eighteen: A Paltry Insurrection \u003cbr\u003eChapter Nineteen: The Air of Abdication \u003cbr\u003eChapter Twenty: The Apple of Discord to the Federalists \u003cbr\u003eChapter Twenty-One: The Late President of the United States, Is No More! \u003cbr\u003eChapter Twenty-Two: Their Gag in My Mouth \u003cbr\u003eChapter Twenty-Three: Hocus-Pocus Maneuvers \u003cbr\u003eChapter Twenty-Four: A Change in the Administration \u003cbr\u003eChapter Twenty-Five: The Seat of Government \u003cbr\u003eChapter Twenty-Six: Death or Liberty \u003cbr\u003eChapter Twenty-Seven: The Unqualified Conviction of His Unfitness for the Station \u003cbr\u003eChapter Twenty-Eight: Storms of a New Character \u003cbr\u003eChapter Twenty-Nine: Nothing but a Forest and Woods Along the Way \u003cbr\u003eChapter Thirty: The Prey of Anarchy and Faction \u003cbr\u003eChapter Thirty-One: The New Order of Things Begins \u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: May None but Honest and Wise Men Acknowledgments \u003cbr\u003eNotes \u003cbr\u003eBibliography \u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Chervinsky produces a worthy and intriguing look at how the decisions that Adams made established presidential and political norms that provided a guide for his successors in the White House-and have endured in modern times. A significant contribution to the history of the American presidency.\" -- \u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDr. Chervinsky's clear and fast-paced political history recaptures the uncertainties of the early American republic as men of principle and men without it jockeyed for power in the first years after George Washington retired. Blazing a trail as the nation's second president, John Adams recognized the crucial importance of putting country above party, even as his opponents used foreign intrigue, lies, and even threats of violence to stay in power. With the support of his wife Abigail, Adams established the norms and precedents that kept our democracy stable for more than two hundred years. The story of how he accomplished that extraordinary feat illuminates not only his own political skill, but also the failings of those who mistook their own ambition for patriotism. \u003cbr\u003e-Heather Cox Richardson, Author of \u003cem\u003eDemocracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMaking the Presidency\u003c\/em\u003e is a stirring evocation of an era of conspiracy in which a foreign authoritarian regime sought to manipulate American democracy while a flawed, unpopular president found himself undermined by a folk hero predecessor and his ruthless allies. With an unerring eye for the dramatic and the lesser-known fact, Lindsay Chervinsky makes John Adams and his world come alive as a most relevant and cautionary tale. \u003cbr\u003e-Timothy Naftali, CNN Presidential Historian\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLindsay M. Chervinsky\u003c\/strong\u003e is Executive Director of the George Washington Presidential Library. She is the author of award-winning \u003cem\u003eThe Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution\u003c\/em\u003e and the co-editor of \u003cem\u003eMourning the Presidents: Loss and Legacy in American Culture.\u003c\/em\u003e Dr. Chervinsky was a historian at the White House Historical Association. She regularly writes for public audiences in publications including the \u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal, Time Magazine, USA Today, CNN.com, Washington Monthly, and the Washington Post\u003c\/em\u003e and is frequent presidential commentator on national TV and radio. 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