Adams and Jefferson - A Revolutionary Dialogue

Adams and Jefferson: A Revolutionary Dialogue documents the public lives and personal friendship of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, from their first meeting as delegates to the Second Continental Congress to their deaths on the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. This study takes a look at some of the famous correspondence between the two statesmen who devoted their lives to a new chapter of freedom and self-government.

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About the author

MERRILL D. PETERSON (1921-2009) was Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Virginia. His books include The Jefferson Image in the American Mind, which won the Bancroft Prize, and Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation: A Biography.

Product details

• Authors: Merrill Peterson, Merrill D. Peterson
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2021
• EAN: 9780820359045
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-5904-5
• No. of pages: 160
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History