02652cam a2200349 i 4500 1130053563 TxAuBib 20240229120000.0 230713s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023027832 9780674292499 HRD 37.95 0674292499 HRD 37.95 TxAuBib rda Cogliano, Francis D., author. A revolutionary friendship [BOOK] : Washington, Jefferson, and the American Republic / Francis D. Cogliano. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2024. ©2024. 354 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. "Martha Washington’s worst memory was the death of her husband. Her second worst was Thomas Jefferson’s awkward visit to pay his respects subsequently. Indeed, by the time George Washington had died in 1799, the two founders were estranged. But that estrangement has obscured the fact that for most of their thirty-year acquaintance they enjoyed a productive relationship. Precisely because they shared so much, their disagreements have something important to teach us. Still, as Francis Cogliano argues, common convictions equally defined their relationship: a passion for American independence and republican government, as well as a commitment to westward expansion and the power of commerce. They also both evolved a skeptical view of slavery, eventually growing to question the institution, even as they took only limited steps to abolish it. What remains fascinating is that the differences between the two statesmen mirrored key political fissures of the early United States, as the unity of revolutionary zeal gave way to competing visions for the new nation. A Revolutionary Friendship captures the dramatic, challenging, and poignant reality that there was no single founding ideal―only compromise between friends and sometime rivals.". 20240229. Washington, George 1732-1799 Friends and associates. Washington, George 1732-1799 Adversaries. Jefferson, Thomas 1743-1826 Friends and associates. Jefferson, Thomas 1743-1826 Adversaries. United States Politics and government To 1775. United States Politics and government 1775-1783. United States Politics and government 1783-1809.