Worst of Friends
Worst of Friends

Author: Suzanne Tripp Jurmain

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2011-12-08

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 0399538860

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John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were good friends with very different personalities. But their differing views on how to run the newly created United States turned them into the worst of friends. They each became leaders of opposing political parties, and their rivalry followed them to the White House. Full of both history and humor, this is the story of two of America's most well-known presidents and how they learned to put their political differences aside for the sake of friendship.

Friend V. Friend
Friend V. Friend

Author: Ethan J. Leib

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2011-01-07

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 0199739609

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In Friend v. Friend, Ethan J. Leib takes stock of this most ancient of social institutions and its ongoing transformations, and contends that it could benefit from better and more sensitive public policies. Leib shows that the law has not kept up with changes in our society: it sanctifies traditional family structures but has no thoughtful approach to other aspects of our private lives. Leib contrasts our excessive legal sensitivity to marriage and families with the lack of legal attention to friendship, and shows why more legal attention to friendship could actually improve our public institutions and our civil society. He offers a number of practical proposals that can support new patterns of interpersonal affinity without making friendship an onerous legal burden. --