| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.3

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Book Review

John Adams and the Founding of the Republic. Ed. by Richard Alan Ryerson. (Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 2001. x, 294 pp. $60.00, ISBN 0-934909-78-4.)

This book with its nine essays and well-crafted introduction resulted from papers presented at the 1996 conference of the Massachusetts Historical Society. David McCullough, the author of the currently popular biography of John Adams, gave the keynote address at the meeting and provided a positive comment for the book jacket. Collections of essays present well-known difficulties to the readers, but this one is much more tightly organized than most and is further strengthened by a strong introduction by its editor, Richard Alan Ryerson. Ryerson, instead of summarizing the individual essays, provides an analysis of the historiography of "Adams studies" and indicates where and how those essays fit in and what further work is required to complete the analysis of this extremely complex figure. . . .

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