Essay On Present Day America

At the beginning of the novel, the reader finds it hard to comprehend present day America as a small and weak nation. That view is because of the way that the USA is viewed today. Present day, the USA is viewed as a strong and powerful country because if its backing by countless allies and the amount of nuclear bombs it holds in its power. Since the USA holds so much power nowadays, the reader would assume that the country had also been like this. However, Joseph Ellis does provide the reader with imagery showing the fragility of the new country. It provides the reader with enough accurate information showing the amount of delicately that the country was in. One example is the letters and the text that the author provides us with. For example, …show more content…
However, he took the letter thinking it meant a invitation of friendship between him and the Adams family. He wrote a letter back claiming that how much he missed his chum, John, and no matter the amount of mistakes he made in his presidency, he still wanted him as a friend. As Abigail read the letter, she noticed how much Thomas attacked her husband’s character. She replied a nasty letter to Jefferson claiming that he was the one that broke the bonds of friendship between the men and that Jefferson had hired people to create false charges against her husband. This outburst surprised Jefferson, yet impressed historians. In my opinion, the most impressive thing about her outburst was the descriptive amount of charges that she wrote in the correspondence. Not only did she claim that Jefferson hired people to create charges against John, she said that the he never support her husband even though he was the president and Jefferson was the Vice president. She claimed that because of the election, he lost all of his honor because of the actions that he took while trying to win the electoral