Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

By Gordon S. Wood

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, History

In Friends Divided (2017), historian Gordon S. Wood traces the long and turbulent relationship between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, two founders who worked together in the American Revolution and helped shape the new republic. Wood contrasts their temperaments and political ideas, which led to a bitter falling-out in the 1790s and Jefferson's defeat of Adams in 1800. The two reconciled through letters late in life and died on the same day, July 4, 1826.

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• Ben Shapiro: “If you want to read a really good dual biography of Adams and Thomas Jefferson, Gordon Wood has an excellent dual biography of the two of them.”