Friends divided : John Adams and Thomas Jefferson / Gordon S. Wood.
Friends divided : John Adams and Thomas Jefferson / Gordon S. Wood.
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New York : Penguin Press, 2017.
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G 2017/5451
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English
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Physical content
502 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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text
still image
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unmediated
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volume
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 -...
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New York : Penguin Press, 2017.
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New York (State)
Date Published
2017.
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"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...
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Friends divided : John Adams and Thomas Jefferson / Gordon S. Wood.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-484) and index.
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©2017
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G 2017/5451
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74VKVgBpVxp3
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVgBpVxp3
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9780735224711 hardcover
0735224714 hardcover
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973.30922
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991024148808202626
