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The Education of John Jay - America’s indispensable diplomat (MUST READ AMERICAN HISTORY!)
City Journal ^ | Winter 2010 | Myron Magnet

Posted on 02/08/2010 12:37:57 AM PST by neverdem

Few could fathom why 55-year-old John Jay turned down President Adams’s nomination to rejoin the Supreme Court when his two terms as New York’s governor ended. What would lead him, in the hale prime of life, to retire instead to the plain yellow house he’d just built on a hilltop at the remote northern edge of Westchester County, two days’ ride from Manhattan, where visitors were few and the mail and newspapers came but once a week? After 27 years at the forge of the new nation’s founding, why would so lavishly talented a man give up his vital role on the world stage for the quiet life of a gentleman farmer?...

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: americanhistory; americanrevolution; founders; foundingfathers; godsgravesglyphs; johnadams; johnjay
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To: neverdem; rmlew

Columbia Ping needed.

Wonderful how so many of our Founding Fathers, Hamilton, Livingston and Jay were students at small King’s College and remained friends throughout their lives.


21 posted on 02/08/2010 8:37:21 AM PST by wildbill (You're just jealous because the Voices talk only to me.)
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To: Enchante

My high school years were in the 70s, and we only had the basic studies even in what was considered one of the better school systems in Florida. The available biographies were of the most simplistic type in the school library, but they still gave one an idea of the people who started America. That was my self-study, because I was never very good at learning dates.


22 posted on 02/08/2010 9:36:38 AM PST by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: wildbill

I’ll ping wehen I get home.
PS. Myron Magnet went to Columbia.


23 posted on 02/08/2010 9:52:59 AM PST by rmlew (Democracy tends to ignore..., threats to its existence because it loathes doing what is needed)
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24 posted on 02/08/2010 10:50:55 AM PST by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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Nice one! Great find!
After 27 years at the forge of the new nation's founding, why would so lavishly talented a man give up his vital role on the world stage for the quiet life of a gentleman farmer?
Probably disgusted over the failure of Congress to vote in universal health care and embrace shariah law. ;') Thanks neverdem.

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25 posted on 02/08/2010 11:02:04 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Happy New Year! Freedom is Priceless.)
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To: neverdem

BTT


26 posted on 02/08/2010 11:18:23 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: neverdem

Bump!


27 posted on 02/08/2010 3:21:16 PM PST by Paul Ross (Ronald Reagan-1987:"We are always willing to be trade partners but never trade patsies.")
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To: neverdem

Wonderful article. Read it though to the end.
Couldn’t stop.


28 posted on 02/08/2010 3:32:29 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: neverdem
Thanks for posting -- took me awhile to finish, but well worth it.

BFL, btw.

Cheers!

29 posted on 02/08/2010 5:17:27 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: neverdem

bookmark


30 posted on 02/08/2010 7:53:31 PM PST by Pelham (ObamaCare, it comes with a toe tag)
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To: neverdem

Thanks for the ping!


31 posted on 02/08/2010 9:10:03 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: neverdem

BUMP for later reading...


32 posted on 02/08/2010 11:35:38 PM PST by IYellAtMyTV (Workday Forecast--Increasing pressure towards afternoon. Rum likely by evening.)
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Columbia Ping
33 posted on 02/09/2010 10:49:30 AM PST by rmlew (Democracy tends to ignore..., threats to its existence because it loathes doing what is needed)
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The Honourable John Jay

Thanks, neverdem, for the post and ping...lots of terrific material in this.

The RevWar/Colonial History/General Washington ping list...

34 posted on 02/09/2010 11:24:30 AM PST by Pharmboy (The Stone Age did not end because they ran out of stones...)
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To: rmlew

Thank you, rm.


35 posted on 02/09/2010 12:00:27 PM PST by Piranha (Obama won like Bernie Madoff attracted investors: by lying about his values, policy and plans.)
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To: neverdem

bookmark


36 posted on 02/09/2010 12:05:28 PM PST by Godebert
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To: neverdem

“Oh! my dr. Mr. Jay,” Sally wrote, when all the kids had fevers, “shd. you too be unwell & absent from me, & I deprived of the satisfaction & consolation of attending you how wretched I shd. be!”

What a Lady, Mrs. Jay.


37 posted on 02/09/2010 12:16:17 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: neverdem

What a remarkable man. The Founders did not enrich themselves from the public trough or use their fame to build a personal fortune, unlike so many in our time. They wanted nothing more than to give of themselves to build a free, strong and great country. Their highest calling seems to have been to be a citizen of this country.


38 posted on 02/09/2010 1:08:46 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: Pharmboy

bump


39 posted on 02/09/2010 1:50:05 PM PST by NonValueAdded (Mass. elects Scott Brown. NVA:" for the first time in my adult life I am proud of my birth state")
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To: neverdem

Thank you !! I downloaded after getting roughly 1/3 way through. Seems we’ll have a few more snow days here in VA to complete the reading.

I grew up on the ‘outer fringes’ of Westchester (not quite so outer when I lived there, of course). The local school was named for local patriot John Jay. Ultimately he came to disfavor among certain of his peers and contemporaries, so not that much has been written about him, so this will be a fun exercise.


40 posted on 02/09/2010 3:10:59 PM PST by EDINVA (Sarchasm (n): The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
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