#1615 Understanding Lindsay Chervinsky’s New Book

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History, Politics, Unitedstates, Society & Culture, American

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🗓️ 2 September 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Clay interviews regular guest Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky about her new book, Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents that Forged the Republic. It’s a wonderfully readable study of the one-term presidency of John Adams. Lindsay sheds new light on some of the most interesting moments of the Adams presidency and examines the first peaceful transfer of power in American political history and the second when Thomas Jefferson displaced Adams in the election of 1800. The book provides fascinating insights into the people and events that set the future trajectory of the great American experiment.

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0:00.0	Welcome everyone to this introduction to our podcast edition of
0:04.0	listening to America. My conversation with Lindsay Chervinsky about her
0:07.3	splendid new book Making the Presidency, John Adams and the
0:10.7	precedents that forged the republic.
0:12.5	Oxford University Press, Lindsay is becoming one of the most important intellectuals
0:17.5	of the early national period of presidential historian.
0:20.0	You're going to see her on media the decades. This is even better book than
0:24.2	her first one, which I like. This is how I met her through the first book, The
0:27.3	Cabinet. Now this book is a sort of about the presidency of John Adams and in
0:32.2	many respects not. It's really about America's norms and
0:36.2	constitutional systems, the transfer of power, free and fair elections, what one administration
0:42.1	owes to its predecessor and to its successor, about how the
0:47.5	Constitution was mostly silent on these questions, and so George Washington had to kind of make
0:52.2	it up as he went along, should I have a cabinet? If so, what Washington had to kind of make it up as he went along.
0:53.4	Should I have a cabinet?
0:54.4	If so, what's their function?
0:56.5	Should I call on friends and strangers?
0:58.3	Should I have dinner parties?
0:59.4	How should I address people?
1:00.4	How should they address me?
1:01.8	Should I even go to my successor's
1:03.1	inauguration is that rude is that taking the limelight away from him do you
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