56. Samuel Flagg Bemis, The Diplomacy of the American Revolution (Bloomington, Ind., 1957), 255–56, and Richard B. Morris, The Peacemakers: The Great Powers and American Independence (New York, 1965), 459, praise Adams and Jay. Perkins, "Peace of Paris," 201, and Dull, Diplomatic History, 146–51, are more critical.