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LETTER FROM ALEXANDER HAMILTON, CONCERNING THE PUBLIC CONDUCT AND CHARACTER OF JOHN ADAMS ESQ. PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. New-York: Printed for John Lang, by Furman & Loudon, 1800. Third Edition. 8 3/8 by 5 1/8 inches; 54 pages complete; removed from bound volume with remains of leather backstrip and sewing still sound. Howes H-116. Ford 71. Reese, Federal One Hundred 81. A famous political and personal critique published just prior to the election of 1800 - credited by some historians with initiating the "politics of character assassination." Lin-Manuel Miranda turned the message into a "John Adams rap" for "Hamilton" - but cut it before opening night. (Youtube) The pamphlet is described this way on the website "Founders Online," of the U.S. National Archives: "Hamilton’s record as Secretary of the Treasury demonstrated to all but his most inveterate enemies that he was a statesman of the first order. His Letter … Concerning the Public Conduct and Character of John Adams revealed that he had become an inept politician who was a burden to the party he had helped to create and hoped to lead. Although the pamphlet’s influence on the outcome of the election of 1800 is difficult, if not impossible, to determine, many contemporaries and historians have asserted that the Letter helped to prevent Adams’s re-election, to widen the division among Federalists, and to destroy the party as a national political organization. Whatever else it may have done, there can be no doubt that it provided Republicans with a campaign document they could not have liked more if they had written it themselves. In addition, the fact that the Letter was criticized by Hamilton’s friends and associates as well as by his enemies, compelled him to abandon any political aspirations he may have entertained." Condition: A few spots of foxing primarily to the title page and preliminaries but clean and fresh example - Very Good.