The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 20: April 1791 to August 1791

by Thomas Jefferson

This volume documents exhaustively for the first time Edmond Charles Genet's dramatic challenges to American neutrality and Jefferson's diplomatic and political responses. After welcoming Genet's arrival as the harbinger of closer relations between the American and French republics, Jefferson becomes increasingly distressed by the French minister's defiance of the Washington administration's ban on the outfitting of French privateers in American ports,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691046867
• ISBN13: 9780691046860
• Release Date: December 1982
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 800 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"