JOHN JAY: Founding Father
Walter Stahr, Author . Hambledon & London $29.95 (496p) ISBN 978-1-85285-444-7
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 (1745–1829), arguably the most important of this second group, has found an admiring, skilled student in Stahr, an international lawyer in Washington. D.C. 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
Reviewed on: 01/31/2005
Release date: 03/01/2005
Genre: Nonfiction
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