In commemoration of Presidents’ Day, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon S. Wood discusses his new book, Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. · Friends Divided John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. Gordon S. Wood. 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. · Good evening listeners, and Happy Thanksgiving! We have a special treat for you this week, as host Richard Aldous speaks with Gordon Wood about his new book, Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. Gordon Wood is an acclaimed author, historian, and the Alva O. Way University Professor and professor of history at Brown University.
In commemoration of Presidents' Day, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon S. Wood discusses his new book, Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. 'Friends Divided' Digs Into The Bumpy Bonds Between 2 Presidents Gordon S. Wood's engaging new dual biography of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams aims to discover why Jefferson is so much more well. Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson by Gordon S. Woods This is a wonderful book that explains far better than any I have read previously the love/hate relationship of these two revered founders of our nation.
As delegates to the Continental Congress in , John Adams and Thomas Jefferson forged a remarkable bond that would last—in fits and starts—for more than fifty years. But, as the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times –bestselling historian Gordon S. Wood writes in his latest book, Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson (Penguin Press), their shared commitment to the American Revolution came despite that fact that “they remained divided in almost every fundamental. Both John Adams () and Thomas Jefferson () died on the golden jubilee of America's founding, within hours of each other. This well-known story opens Wood's (history, Brown Univ.; The Idea of America) biography of an unlikely friendship that had the power to bring the nation together; yet, one also fraught with an ideological divide that threatened the strength of their relationship. Gordon S. Wood, the Alva O. Way university professor at Brown, who has been writing history as long as Jefferson and Adams knew each other, examines their relationship in “Friends Divided.
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