250 years of American independence: Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, 'the North and South poles of the American Revolution'

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'America 250' (4/13). Fifty years to the day after the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, two of its architects died: the enigmatic Thomas Jefferson and the impulsive John Adams. This coincidence only strengthened, among the population, the sense of an unprecedented destiny promised to the