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.'
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Correspondence of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson 1812-1826
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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.
... 223, 713, 941, 945 Gordon, George, 354 Gordon, Mr., 870 Gore, Christopher, 681, 747, 807, 814 Gorham, Nathaniel, 289 Gothenburg, Sweden, 870, 880 Gouda, Netherlands, 401 Government, 79–80, 92 Governors, state, 388 Grand, Ferdinand, ...
See Newcomb, Jane Glover Goffe, William (regicide), 235 Goldsmith, Oliver: “Edwin and Angelina,” 56; “The Deserted Village,” 67 Gordon, Lord George, 237 Gore, Christopher (of Cambridge), 354, 469 Grant, Rev. (of Trenton, N.J.), 467 Gray ...
The letters of a person . . . form the only full and genuine journal of his life, noted Thomas Jefferson, who wrote nearly 20,000 letters in his own lifetime....
James Madison to TJ , 13 May 1798 , in Letters and Other Writings of James Madison , 4 vols . ( Washington , D.C. , 1894 ) , II , 140 . 36. Adams , ed . , Addresses , Works , IX , 187 . 37. JA to TJ , 30 June 1813 , Cappon , ed .
The author compares the intellectual understanding of the Enlightenment of Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson, and shows how the personal experiences and regional cultural traditions of each man shaped his interpretation ...