Friends divided : John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
2017
923.173 A214woo 2017
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Title
Friends divided : John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
Published
New York : Penguin Press, 2017.
Description
502 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
923.173 A214woo 2017
System Control No.
(OCoLC)973087458
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 437-484) and index.
Contents: Prologue: The Eulogies -- Contrasts -- Careers, Wives, and Other Women -- The Imperial Crisis -- Independence -- Missions Abroad -- Constitutions -- The French Revolution -- Federalists and Republicans -- The President vs. the Vice President -- The Jeffersonian Revolution of 1800 -- Reconciliation -- The Great Reversal -- The National Jubilee.
L2017M123
"Thomas Jefferson and John Adams could scarcely have come from more different worlds, or been more different in temperament. Jefferson, the optimist with enough faith in the innate goodness of his fellow man to be democracy's champion, was an aristocratic Southern slave owner, while Adams, the overachiever from New England's rising middling classes, painfully aware he was no aristocrat, was a skeptic about popular rule and a defender of a more elitist view of government. They worked closely in the crucible of revolution, crafting the Declaration of Independence and leading, with Franklin, the diplomatic effort that brought France into the fight. But ultimately, their profound differences would lead to a fundamental crisis, in their friendship and writ large in the nation, as they became the figureheads of two entirely new forces, the first American political parties. It was a bitter breach, lasting through the presidential administrations of both men, and beyond"--Provided by publisher.
Contents: Prologue: The Eulogies -- Contrasts -- Careers, Wives, and Other Women -- The Imperial Crisis -- Independence -- Missions Abroad -- Constitutions -- The French Revolution -- Federalists and Republicans -- The President vs. the Vice President -- The Jeffersonian Revolution of 1800 -- Reconciliation -- The Great Reversal -- The National Jubilee.
L2017M123
"Thomas Jefferson and John Adams could scarcely have come from more different worlds, or been more different in temperament. Jefferson, the optimist with enough faith in the innate goodness of his fellow man to be democracy's champion, was an aristocratic Southern slave owner, while Adams, the overachiever from New England's rising middling classes, painfully aware he was no aristocrat, was a skeptic about popular rule and a defender of a more elitist view of government. They worked closely in the crucible of revolution, crafting the Declaration of Independence and leading, with Franklin, the diplomatic effort that brought France into the fight. But ultimately, their profound differences would lead to a fundamental crisis, in their friendship and writ large in the nation, as they became the figureheads of two entirely new forces, the first American political parties. It was a bitter breach, lasting through the presidential administrations of both men, and beyond"--Provided by publisher.
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