
Friends Divided
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
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James Lurie
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Gordon S. Wood
From the great historian of the American Revolution, New York Times best-selling 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 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 in the nation writ large 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.
But late in life, something remarkable happened: These two men were nudged into reconciliation. What started as a grudging trickle of correspondence became a great flood, and a friendship was rekindled over the course of hundreds of letters. In their final years, they were the last surviving founding fathers and cherished their role in this mighty young republic as it approached the half-century mark in 1826. At last, on the afternoon of July 4, 50 years to the day after the signing of the Declaration, Adams let out a sigh and said, "At least Jefferson still lives." He died soon thereafter. In fact, a few hours earlier on that same day, far to the south in his home in Monticello, Jefferson died as well.
Arguably, no relationship in this country's history carries as much freight as that of John Adams of Massachusetts and Thomas Jefferson of Virginia. Gordon Wood has more than done justice to these entwined lives and their meaning; he has written a magnificent new addition to America's collective story.
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“This is an engrossing story, which Wood tells with a mastery of detail and a modern plainness of expression that makes a refreshing contrast with the 18th-century locutions of his subjects.” (The New York Times Book Review)
“Lucid and learned.... Wood has become the leading historian of the ‘Founding Fathers’.... Never has John Adams been more relevant than today.” (The Wall Street Journal)
"Whenever I read Gordon Wood, the dean of 18th-century American historians, I feel as if I am absorbing wisdom at the feet of the master. Friends Divided is teeming with exceptionally acute and unvarnished insights into Thomas Jefferson and John Adams as they do battle for the nation's soul. Jefferson's sunny, almost Panglossian, optimism, juxtaposed with the dark, dyspeptic musings of Adams, presents readers with nothing less than a vivid composite portrait of the American mind." (Ron Chernow, author of Grant and Alexander Hamilton)
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I loved seeing how their lives were parallel...
Friendship and Politics Can Work!
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This was an excellent book.
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A masterwork in early American history
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Great contrast
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Some repetition and at times the story dragged a bit. Elements like Jefferson's alienation of Washington were not mentioned even though that could have been tied into the story.
Excellent history and story of a friendship
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Excellent book, very well performed
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Rich narrative of the psychology of founding fathers
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The characters opened up and the story their lives were telling became real to me.
America wasn’t a unified place in the late 18th century. It was a place where different minded people were deciding they didn’t want to live under British rule anymore.
People in the colonies didn’t hate England. Quite the contrary, many viewed it as the most functional -even democratic - government in the world. But it wasn’t the government of the colonies. It was too far away, too detached, and too parasitic. These were not ideological concerns but practical ones.
And the decoration of independence was not signed by a bunch of like minded men that bought into its every word and were willing to die for what it said. They may have been willing to die for the cause, but not that document - at least not when it was written.
This book by taking to patriots, two founding fathers, two friends, and two very differently thinking men, paints the period in all the colors of diversity of thought that we may not understand mirrors the country we have today.
One of the best books i have read
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Great Insights on Jefferson & ADAMS
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The author does not hold Adams in contempt. He goes to great lengths to show that Adams's knowledge on the nature of governments was second to none. He also points out that one of the reasons Jefferson was (and is) more liked is because he told people what they wanted to hear (that Americans are exceptional people), while Adams told people what they needed to know (that Americans are not exceptional, and that they are capable of losing their way of life if they are not vigilant about protecting it).
Reading the book made gave me a greater appreciation for Adams than I had before; and I firmly believe he deserves a National Monument alongside Jefferson's.
Lastly, this book does a great job in revealing that the founding fathers were just as divided on the issues as are the politicians of today. Too often people say things like "the founding fathers believed..." as if they all believed the same things. This book shows that their opinions differed greatly and that they were always in a state of flux, to the point where what they believed in 1776 was very different from what they believed later in life.
Adams deserves a National Monument
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