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Imaginary Friendship in the American Revolution John Adams and Jonathan Sewall 1st Edition

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Full Title

Imaginary Friendship in the American Revolution John Adams and Jonathan Sewall 1st Edition

Author(s)

Colin Nicolson, Owen Dudley Edwards

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9781351767422, 9780367664350, 9781138703827, 9781315196565, 9781351767415, 9781351767439

Publisher

Routledge

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

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 1775 but why he was impelled to answer him.