Making the Presidency

Lindsay M. Chervinskyis Executive Director of the George Washington Presidential Library. She is the author of award-winningThe Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institutionand the co-editor ofMourning the Presidents: Loss and Legacy in American Culture. Dr. Chervinsky was a historian at the White House Historical Association. She regularly writes for public audiences in publications including theWall Street Journal,Time Magazine, USA Today,CNN.com, Washington Monthly, and theWashington Postand is frequent presidential commentator on national TV and radio. Chervinsky lives in Alexandria, Virginia.

Chervinsky produces a worthy and intriguing look at how the decisions that Adams made established presidential and political norms that provided a guide for his successors in the White House-and have endured in modern times. A significant contribution to the history of the American presidency.

• A Note on Language IntroductionChapter One: An Address to the People of the United StatesChapter Two: Washington RecedesChapter Three: The Die Is CastChapter Four: The "Sublimest Thing" Ever Exhibited in AmericaChapter Five: A Scene of AmbitionChapter Six: A Dishonorable InfidelityChapter Seven: Expect Nothing but the Most Unqualified InjusticeChapter Eight: Not a Sixpence!Chapter Nine: Poured in from All QuartersChapter Ten: Massacre the InhabitantsChapter Eleven: Decisive MeasuresChapter Twelve: The "Majic" of His NameChapter Thirteen: The Tocsin of InsurrectionChapter Fourteen: All Evidence That They Are SincereChapter Fifteen: Solely the President's ActChapter Sixteen: Struck by a ThunderboltChapter Seventeen: The Spirit in the City is Very HighChapter Eighteen: A Paltry InsurrectionChapter Nineteen: The Air of AbdicationChapter Twenty: The Apple of Discord to the FederalistsChapter Twenty-One: The Late President of the United States, Is No More!Chapter Twenty-Two: Their Gag in My MouthChapter Twenty-Three: Hocus-Pocus ManeuversChapter Twenty-Four: A Change in the AdministrationChapter Twenty-Five: The Seat of GovernmentChapter Twenty-Six: Death or LibertyChapter Twenty-Seven: The Unqualified Conviction of His Unfitness for the StationChapter Twenty-Eight: Storms of a New CharacterChapter Twenty-Nine: Nothing but a Forest and Woods Along the WayChapter Thirty: The Prey of Anarchy and FactionChapter Thirty-One: The New Order of Things BeginsEpilogue: May None but Honest and Wise Men AcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex