Letter from Alexander Hamilton, Concerning the Public Conduct and Character of John Adams, Esq. President of the United States

by Alexander Hamilton

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54pp. 8vo. Disbound, toning. Evans 37570; Howes H116; Ford 73; Sabin 29959; Reese, Federal Hundred 81. Item #377690 Hamilton originally issued this work with the hope of giving Federalist Charles Cotesworth Pinckney a majority over Adams in the Election of 1800. Hamilton writes of Adams: ...He does not possess the talents adapted to the administration of this Government, and that there are great and intrinsic defects in his character which unfit

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