Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson (Random House Large Print)

Author: Wood, Gordon S.Brand: Random House Large PrintColor: BlackEdition: Large type / Large printBinding: PaperbackFormat: Large PrintNumber Of Pages: 880Release Date: 24-10-2017Part Number: IllustratedDetails: A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017 From the great historian of the American Revolution, New York Times-bestselling and Pulitzer-winning Gordon Wood, comes a majestic dual biography of two of America's most enduringly fascinating figures, whose partnership helped birth a nation, and whose subsequent falling out did much to fix its course. 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 slaveowner, 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 def