Friends divided : John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

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Published Reviews

Booklist Review: "Celebrated historian Wood begins his study of Founding Father frenemies John Adams and Thomas Jefferson by contending that while Jefferson's star has remained ascendant . . . Adams' seems to have virtually disappeared from the firmament. David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Adams and the resulting Emmy-winning HBO series based on it apparently made little impression on this author. Nevertheless, this is a fascinating, if at times dense, portrait of two brilliant men. Adams was blunt, brash, and well-spoken, with a dark view of human nature thanks to his Puritan upbringings. Jefferson was genteel, politic, an optimist about democracy. Wood recreates their oft-tested friendship and parses their writings for their beliefs about politics and America's future. Wood's hard work is marred by his supposition that Jefferson's role in writing the Declaration of Independence has lodged Jefferson, not Adams, in Americans' permanent memory, that Adams himself knew that Jefferson was the superior man. The world has changed, and now Jefferson is judged by his role as a willing slaveowner and his relationship with slave Sally Hemings. Contemporary readers may be unpersuaded by Wood's argument.--Gwinn, Mary Ann Copyright 2017 Booklist"
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Publisher's Weekly Review: "Wood (The Idea of America), a Pulitzer and Bancroft prize-winning professor of history at Brown, harnesses a career's worth of historical knowledge to produce an artful tale of two of the most accomplished founding fathers. "The ironies and paradoxes expressed in the lives of these two Founders epitomize the strange and wondrous experience of the nation itself," Wood explains. Though the U.S. emerged as a sovereign nation, its people remained divided by conflicting political philosophies. Adams and Jefferson often ended up on opposite sides, with political differences driving an almost irrevocable wedge between them. Tracing the trajectory of this fragile friendship, Wood reveals how and why Jefferson rather than Adams has endured as the embodiment of the nation's heritage. Through the first two chapters, Wood introduces Adams and Jefferson by comparing and contrasting their backgrounds and characters. The two men became acquainted during meetings of the Second Continental Congress, where they agreed on the divisive question of independence. Later, political differences surfaced over the new U.S. Constitution, the French Revolution, and American party politics, all of which strained their friendship. Wood glides through the political intricacies and intrigues of the times, offering incisive analyses, especially of the ongoing debate over slavery, finely illuminating the minds of Adams and Jefferson. (Oct.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved."
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Additional Information

Subjects	Jefferson, Thomas, -- 1743-1826 -- Friends and associates. Adams, John, -- 1735-1826 -- Friends and associates. Presidents -- United States -- Biography. Founding Fathers of the United States -- Biography. United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783. United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1809.
Publisher	New York :Penguin Press,2017
Language	English
Description	502 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Notes	Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-484) and index.
ISBN	9780735224711 0735224714
Other	Classic View