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04196aim a2200601Ii 4500 001 E173571C121D11E8ACF552FF96128E48 003 SILO 005 20180215010017 007 sd fungnnmmneu 008 170224s2017 nyunnnn b n eng d 020 $a 052549832X 020 $a 9780525498322 028 02 $a PRHA 6943 $b Penguin Random House Audio 035 $a (OCoLC)973918644 040 $a BTCTA $b eng $e rda $c BTCTA $d TEF $d OCLCQ $d GP5 $d OCLCF $d BLACP $d BUR $d JIW $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 082 04 $a 973.3092/2 $2 23 100 1 $a Wood, Gordon S., $e author. 245 10 $a Friends divided : $b John Adams and Thomas Jefferson / $c Gordon S. Wood. 250 $a Unabridged. 264 1 $a [New York] : $b Penguin Random House Audio, $c [2017] 300 $a 14 audio discs (18 hr.) : $b digital ; $c 4 3/4 in. 306 $a 180000 500 $a Title from container. 511 0 $a Read by James Lurie. 500 $a Compact discs. 520 $a This biography details the initial friendship of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, and how it dissolved into rivalry as they became the leaders of America's first political parties. 520 $a "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 writ large in the nation, 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. ... 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."--Dust jacket of hardcover. 600 10 $a Jefferson, Thomas, $d 1743-1826 $x Friends and associates. 600 10 $a Adams, John, $d 1735-1826 $x Friends and associates. 600 17 $a Adams, John, $d 1735-1826. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00042531 600 17 $a Jefferson, Thomas, $d 1743-1826. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00040754 650 0 $a Presidents $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Founding Fathers of the United States $v Biography. 651 0 $a United States $x Politics and government $y 1775-1783. 651 0 $a United States $x Politics and government $y 1783-1809. 650 7 $a Founding Fathers of the United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01739942 650 7 $a Friendship. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00935174 650 7 $a Politics and government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919741 650 7 $a Presidents. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01075723 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1775-1809 $2 fast 655 7 $a Audiobooks. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Audiobooks. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01726208 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 $a Biography. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423686 700 1 $a Lurie, James, $e narrator. 941 $a 1 945 $a cdab 952 $l BNPD611 $d 20210323024850.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E173571C121D11E8ACF552FF96128E48 994 $a C0 $b JIWInitiate Another SILO Locator Search