John Adams (1735-1826), educated as a lawyer at Harvard, was
the Massachusetts delegate to the First and Second Continental
Congresses. During the Revolutionary War, he served abroad in
diplomatic roles and helped negotiate the peace treaty. After
serving as Vice President for two terms under George Washington, he
was subsequently elected President.
Gordon S. Wood is Alva O. Way Professor of History Emeritus
at Brown University and the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning
The Radicalism of the American Revolution. He has also edited the
two-volume Library of America edition The American Revolution:
Writings from the Pamphlet Debate 1764–1776.
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