Friends Divided

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Illustration credits

Here: Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Mass., USA/Bridgeman Images; here (top): Print Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints, and Photographs, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations; here (bottom): Martin Falbisoner / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0; here: Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Name: Wood, Gordon S., author.

Title: Friends divided : John Adams and Thomas Jefferson / Gordon S. Wood.

Description: New York : Penguin Press, 2017.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017025116 (print) | LCCN 2017027494 (ebook) | ISBN 9780735224728 (ebook) | ISBN 9780735224711 (hardback)

Subjects: LCSH: Jefferson, Thomas, 1743–1826—Friends and associates. | Adams, John, 1735–1826—Friends and associates. | Presidents—United States—Biography. | Founding Fathers of the United States—Biography. | United States—Politics and government—1775–1783. | United States—Politics and government—1783–1809. | BISAC: HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775–1800). | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political. | POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General.

Classification: LCC E332.2 (ebook) | LCC E332.2 .W65 2017 (print) | DDC 973.3092/2—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017025116