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John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died within hours of each other on the 50th anniversary of the Declaration. Edward J. Larson recounts the bitterness of the 1800 campaign in a WaPo op-ed. He doesn't get into how Adams and Jefferson later reconciled, a story told, albeit greatly simplified, in the last episode of the fabulous HBO miniseries John Adams. After watching the miniseries I picked up The Adams-Jefferson Letters, a volume that I highly recommend for history buffs.