Loved John Adams for intellect colliding with nation-building grit? Meet the unsung diplomat in John Jay: Founding Father by .
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- Sharp-tongued intellect wrestling diplomatic betrayals & treaties
- Private letters expose flaws behind patriotic facade
- Enlightenment ideals meet messy human temper
- Unsung hero gets sweeping biographical redemption
If McCullough's Adams left you hungry for another Founder who wrestled nations into being through sheer intellect and temper, Walter Stahr delivers John Jay—the short-fused, principle-drunk diplomat who negotiated empires and forged treaties while his contemporaries grabbed headlines. Here's the gritty Revolutionary politics you crave: backroom deals, moral combat, Enlightenment fire colliding with human stubbornness, all rendered with the meticulous research and narrative sweep that made Adams unforgettable.
Jay's private letters reveal a man as devoted to family as to liberty, his flaws as vivid as his triumphs. This is unapologetic history for readers who refuse to apologize for loving their country's founding myths.
Meet the unsung architect who had the backbone Adams would have admired.
What Readers Are Saying
"...a fascinating biography of a remarkable patriot...the author did an amazing amount of research" — Diana Long, Goodreads
"...a fresh vision of one of the great minds...a force of scholarship in the field of early American history" — Joshua, Goodreads
"...what a revelation...an important founding father...served his country with distinction" — John Becker, Goodreads
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