Quincy 400: Making the Presidency

Join us as we welcome Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky, who will speak about her latest book, Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents that Forged the Republic.

DR. LINDSAY M. CHERVINSKY is a presidential historian and Executive Director of the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon. Previously, she was a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University, a historian at the White House Historical Association, and a fellow at the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. Lindsay's latest book, MAKING THE PRESIDENCY: John Adams and the Precedents that Forged the Republic, published on September 5th, 2024 by Oxford University Press. She is also the author of the award-winning book The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution and co-editor of Mourning the Presidents: Loss and Legacy in American Culture. Dr. Chervinsky has been published in the Washington Post, TIME, USA Today, CNN.com, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Monthly, The Daily Beast, and many others; she is a regular resource for outlets like CBS News, Face the Nation, CNN, The BBC, New York Times, Washington Post, Associated Press, CBC News and Wired's "Tech Support."

This program is made possible by the generous sponsorship of the Friends of the Thomas Crane Public Library.

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