Gordon S. Wood Quotes:
Ocupation: Professor
Life: b. November 27, 1933
Birthday: November 27
[John] Adams's perception of Europe, and especially France, was clearly different than [Tomas] Jefferson's. For Jefferson, the luxury and sophistication of Europe only made American simplicity and virtue appear dearer. For Adams, by contrast, Europe represented what America was fast becoming - a society consumed by luxury and vice and fundamentally riven by a struggle between rich and poor, gentlemen and commoners.
topic: Struggle, Europe, Luxury, Tomas Jefferson, Commoners
