Imaginary Friendship in the American Revolution
John Adams and Jonathan Sewall
Owen Dudley Edwards author Colin Nicolson author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:30th Nov '18
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Imaginary Friendship is the first in-depth study of the onset of the American Revolution through the prism of friendship, focusing on future US president John Adams and leading Loyalist Jonathan Sewall. The book is part biography, revealing how they shaped each other’s progress, and part political history, exploring their intriguing dangerous quest to clean up colonial politics. Literary history examines the personal dimension of discourse, resolving how Adams’s presumption of Sewall’s authorship of the Loyalist tracts Massachusettensis influenced his own magnum opus, Novanglus. The mystery is not why Adams presumed Sewall was his adversary in 1775but why he was impelled to answer him.
ISBN: 9781138703827
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 453g
224 pages