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Friends Divided

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

Friends Divided( )
Author: Wood, Gordon S.
ISBN:978-0-7352-2471-1
Publication Date:Oct 2017
Publisher:Penguin Publishing Group
Imprint:Penguin Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $59.99
Book Description:

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.

Book Details
Pages:512
Detailed Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Presidents & Heads Of State
History / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):16.281 x 24.282 x 4.14 cm
Book Weight:0.818 Kilograms
Author Biography
Wood, Gordon S. (Author)
History professor and award-winning author Gordon S. Wood was born in Concord, Massachusetts on November 27, 1933. After graduating in 1955 from Tufts University he served in the US Air Force in Japan and earned his master's degree from Harvard University. In 1964, Wood earned his Ph. D. in history from Harvard, and he taught there, as well as at the College of William and Mary and the University of Michigan, before joining the Brown University faculty in 1969.

Wood has published a number of articles and books, including The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787, which won the Bancroft Prize and the John H. Dunning Prize in 1970, and The Radicalism of the American Revolution, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize in 1993. He has won many other awards in the past five decades from organizations such as the American Historical Association, the New York Historical Society, and the Fraunces Tavern Museum. Wood is a fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. In 2014, his book, The American Revolution: A History, was on the New York Times bestseller list.

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