Pauline Maier: In Memoriam
In: American political thought: a journal of ideas, institutions, and culture, Band 2, Heft 2, S. v-vi
ISSN: 2161-1599
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In: American political thought: a journal of ideas, institutions, and culture, Band 2, Heft 2, S. v-vi
ISSN: 2161-1599
In: Australian quarterly: AQ, Band 80, Heft 5, S. 20-23
ISSN: 0005-0091, 1443-3605
In: IDS bulletin: transforming development knowledge, Band 21, Heft 2, S. 75-77
ISSN: 1759-5436
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In: Australian quarterly: AQ, Band 5, Heft 19, S. 34
ISSN: 1837-1892
In: Australian quarterly: AQ, Band 3, Heft 10, S. 9
ISSN: 1837-1892
In: Oxford scholarship online
"From the great historian of the American Revolution, NYT-bestselling and Pulitzer-winning Gordon Wood, comes a majestic dual biography of two of America's most enduringly fascinating figures, whose partnership helped birth a nation, and whose subsequent falling out did much to fix its course. 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 slaveowner, 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 in the nation writ large, 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"--
A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the American Revolution explains why it remains the most significant event in our history. In a series of elegant and illuminating essays, Wood explores the ideological origins of the revolution--from ancient Rome to the European Enlightenment--and the founders' attempts to forge an American democracy
In: Studi e ricerche
In: Distinguished lecture series on the Bicentennial