Buch, Englisch, 168 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: Georgia Open History Library
A Revolutionary Dialogue
Buch, Englisch, 168 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: Georgia Open History Library
ISBN: 978-0-8203-5905-2
Verlag: University of Georgia Press
Peterson draws an extended parallel between the backgrounds, experiences, personalities, and intellectual styles of Adams and Jefferson and examines their work in the achievement of independence and the design of new governments for Massachusetts and Virginia. While Adams and Jefferson had much in common, their ideas of human nature, history, society, and government included many differences that would reveal themselves in the course of time. Merrill D. Peterson looks at Adams and Jefferson's relationship across their lives, including their disputes in the midst of the coming French Revolution, their excitement for the establishment of a new American government under the Constitution, their contest for the presidency in 1796, and their eventual reconciliation.