The Adams Jefferson Letters

Author : John Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Presidents
ISBN : UOM:39015001871014

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The Adams-Jefferson Letters by John Adams Pdf

Author : John Adams,Thomas Jefferson,Abigail Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Presidents
ISBN : OCLC:137301973

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The Adams-Jefferson Letters by John Adams,Thomas Jefferson,Abigail Adams Pdf

A collection of 380 letters, written between 1777-1826, with notes and chapter introductions that relate them to the history of the American republic. For other editions, see Author Catalog.

Author : Lester J. Cappon
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807838921

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The Adams-Jefferson Letters by Lester J. Cappon Pdf

An intellectual dialogue of the highest plane achieved in America, the correspondence between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson spanned half a century and embraced government, philosophy, religion, quotidiana, and family griefs and joys. First meeting as delegates to the Continental Congress in 1775, they initiated correspondence in 1777, negotiated jointly as ministers in Europe in the 1780s, and served the early Republic--each, ultimately, in its highest office. At Jefferson's defeat of Adams for the presidency in 1800, they became estranged, and the correspondence lapses from 1801 to 1812, then is renewed until the death of both in 1826, fifty years to the day after the Declaration of Independence. Lester J. Cappon's edition, first published in 1959 in two volumes, provides the complete correspondence between these two men and includes the correspondence between Abigail Adams and Jefferson. Many of these letters have been published in no other modern edition, nor does any other edition devote itself exclusively to the exchange between Jefferson and the Adamses. Introduction, headnotes, and footnotes inform the reader without interrupting the speakers. This reissue of The Adams-Jefferson Letters in a one-volume unabridged edition brings to a broader audience one of the monuments of American scholarship and, to quote C. Vann Woodward, 'a major treasure of national literature.'

Author : John Adams,Abigail Adams,Thomas Jefferson
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89066427279

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The Adams-Jefferson Letters by John Adams,Abigail Adams,Thomas Jefferson Pdf

Author : Gordon S. Wood
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780735224728

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Friends Divided by Gordon S. Wood Pdf

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 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 4th, 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.

Author : John Adams,Thomas Jefferson,Abigail Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Presidents
ISBN : OCLC:137301973

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The Adams-Jefferson Letters by John Adams,Thomas Jefferson,Abigail Adams Pdf

A collection of 380 letters, written between 1777-1826, with notes and chapter introductions that relate them to the history of the American republic. For other editions, see Author Catalog.

Author : John Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1374026284

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The Adams Jefferson letters by John Adams Pdf

Author : Abigail Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Presidents' spouses
ISBN : HARVARD:32044087521852

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Letters of Mrs. Adams by Abigail Adams Pdf

Author : Thomas Jefferson,John Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015063662442

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"Ye Will Say I Am No Christian" by Thomas Jefferson,John Adams Pdf

Presents and analyzes the correspondence between the second and third U.S. presidents on religion and related themes from 1787 to 1826, assessing their views on the relationship between government and religion.

Author : Abigail Adams
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674057050

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My Dearest Friend by Abigail Adams Pdf

Spanning nearly forty years, the letters collected in this volume form the most significant correspondence—and reveal one of the most intriguing and inspiring partnerships—in American history.

Author : Abigail Adams
Publisher : Library of America
Page : 1180 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781598535297

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Abigail Adams: Letters (LOA #275) by Abigail Adams Pdf

Abigail Adams was an unusually accomplished letter writer. Spirited and insightful, her correspondence offers a unique vantage on historical events in which her family played so prominent a role, while bringing vividly to life the everyday experience of American women in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Here are 430 letters—more than a hundred published for the first time—to John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Mercy Otis Warren, James and Dolley Madison, and Martha Washington, among many others. Including her famous call to “Remember the Ladies,” letters from the 1760s and 1770s offer an unrivalled portrait of the American Revolution on the home front. Travel to Europe in the 1780s opens a grand new field for her talents as social commentator and political advisor while her roles as vice presidential and presidential wife place her at the very heart of the nation’s founding. Also included are a chronology of Adams’s life, detailed notes, and extensively researched family trees. This volume is published simultaneously with John Adams: Writings from the New Nation 1784–1826, the third and final volume in the Library of America John Adams edition. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1919*
Category : Composers
ISBN : OCLC:7660117

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Composers and Artists Whose Art is Re-created by Edison's New Art by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Presidents
ISBN : NWU:35556018094565

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Correspondence of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, 1812-1826 by John Adams Pdf

Author : Gore Vidal
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300127928

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Inventing a Nation by Gore Vidal Pdf

This New York Times bestseller offers “an unblinking view of our national heroes by one who cherishes them, warts and all” (New York Review of Books). In Inventing a Nation, National Book Award winner Gore Vidal transports the reader into the minds, the living rooms (and bedrooms), the convention halls, and the salons of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and others. We come to know these men, through Vidal’s splendid prose, in ways we have not up to now—their opinions of each other, their worries about money, their concerns about creating a viable democracy. Vidal brings them to life at the key moments of decision in the birthing of our nation. He also illuminates the force and weight of the documents they wrote, the speeches they delivered, and the institutions of government by which we still live. More than two centuries later, America is still largely governed by the ideas championed by this triumvirate. The author of Burr and Lincoln, one of the master stylists of American literature and most acute observers of American life, turns his immense literary and historiographic talent to a portrait of these formidable men

Author : John Ferling
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199728541

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Adams vs. Jefferson by John Ferling Pdf

It was a contest of titans: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, two heroes of the Revolutionary era, once intimate friends, now icy antagonists locked in a fierce battle for the future of the United States. The election of 1800 was a thunderous clash of a campaign that climaxed in a deadlock in the Electoral College and led to a crisis in which the young republic teetered on the edge of collapse. Adams vs. Jefferson is the gripping account of a turning point in American history, a dramatic struggle between two parties with profoundly different visions of how the nation should be governed. The Federalists, led by Adams, were conservatives who favored a strong central government. The Republicans, led by Jefferson, were more egalitarian and believed that the Federalists had betrayed the Revolution of 1776 and were backsliding toward monarchy. The campaign itself was a barroom brawl every bit as ruthless as any modern contest, with mud-slinging, scare tactics, and backstabbing. The low point came when Alexander Hamilton printed a devastating attack on Adams, the head of his own party, in "fifty-four pages of unremitting vilification." The stalemate in the Electoral College dragged on through dozens of ballots. Tensions ran so high that the Republicans threatened civil war if the Federalists denied Jefferson the presidency. Finally a secret deal that changed a single vote gave Jefferson the White House. A devastated Adams left Washington before dawn on Inauguration Day, too embittered even to shake his rival's hand. With magisterial command, Ferling brings to life both the outsize personalities and the hotly contested political questions at stake. He shows not just why this moment was a milestone in U.S. history, but how strongly the issues--and the passions--of 1800 resonate with our own time.