Lawfare Archive: Lindsay Chervinsky on ‘Making the Presidency’

11/11/2025 1h 8min
Lawfare Archive: Lindsay Chervinsky on ‘Making the Presidency’

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From September 23, 2024: Lindsay Chervinsky is the Executive Director of the George Washington Library at Mount Vernon. She is also the author of a much celebrated new book on the John Adams presidency that is focused primarily on the national security decision-making of the second president and how it set norms for the conduct of the presidency and its powers with which we still live today. She sat down with Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes to talk about how Adams defended presidential power while it was under assault by both his Jeffersonian foes and the radicals of his own Federalist party. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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