| International Standard Book Number |
9781668003428
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| International Standard Book Number |
1668003422
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
973.3092/2
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| Personal Name |
Rasenberger, Jim, author.
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| Title Statement |
A perfect coincidence : the extraordinary friendship and astonishing deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson / Jim Rasenberger.
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| Imprint |
New York, NY : Scribner, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
xvii, 473 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references (page 399-448) and index.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
The eye of Providence --Objects of the most stupendous magnitude --An angel rides in the whirlwind --The fruits of our glorious revolution --Head and heart --Miracles will not be wrought for us --Who will love me then? --Good riddance --Splendid misery --A dream --The common object of your affections --Tender ties which unite us --Your friend to all eternity --The strange things we have witnessed.
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| Summary, Etc. |
In creating the Declaration of Independence, approved by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, Jefferson and Adams collaborated in what Jefferson later called "a perfect coincidence" of thought and action. Exactly fifty years later, in the most perfect coincidence in American history, they died within hours of each other--both former US presidents, both essential architects of the nation. This book explores those two remarkable coincidences and the fifty-year relationship in between. Thomas Jefferson, a charismatic Southern aristocrat, and John Adams, a cantankerous Yankee, were once close friends, then bitter political enemies. In the last years of their lives, they reconciled and resumed an extraordinary correspondence, totaling some 380 letters that continued until their final months. Other than the Declaration of Independence, the greatest symbolic gift either man gave his country may have been dying together on that fateful Independence Day in 1826. For many Americans, this moment was viewed as a "visible and palpable" manifestation of "Divine favor"--as one contemporary put it--and fueled the conviction that America was a land of miracles.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Adams, John, 1735-1826.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Presidents United States Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Founding Fathers of the United States Biography.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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