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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Adams Family (1930)di James Truslow Adams
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. The Epilogue states that Charles Francis Adams III, "is head of the family & Secretary of that Navy which was founded by John." The book was published in 1930, during the great depression! I wonder how many of John Adams' descendants are alive today & what are they doing? ( ) 3541. The Adams Family, by James Truslow Adams (read 16 Feb 2002) This is a 1930 book on four generations of the Adams family, obviously read as a result of reading David McCullough's superb bio of John. Since this book covers John and his son and grandson and great-grandsons in far fewer pages than McCullough devoted to John, it is abbreviated-sounding--and not as hagiographical as McCullough in regard to John. The family is an amazing one and well worth the time I have spent on it (which includes not only McCullough's book but Page Smith's two volume bio of John, Samuel Flagg Bemis' two volume bio of John Quincy Adams, and Ernest Samuels' three-volume bio of Henry Adams). nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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1930. From the Preface: The family whose story is told in this volume (and with which I am in no way connected) is the most distinguished in the United States. Suddenly passing from village obscurity into international fame in the latter part of the eighteenth century, it has ever since maintained a preeminent position, due neither to great wealth nor to a hereditary title, but to character and sheer intellectual ability. It is this in part, which gives it a unique interest, although the life of each of its members here chronicled has an interest also of its own. The volume, however, is not intended to be merely a series of biographies. It is essentially a biography of a family, thrown against the changing background of its times for a hundred and fifty years. Indeed, the family is in part used as a sort of measuring rod to measure the extent of the change in its environment. The chief purpose of the book is thus not at all genealogical, and only in a minor degree individually biographical. Contents: The First Generation: John Adams; The Second Generation: John Quincy Adams; The Third Generation: Charles Francis Adams; and The Fourth Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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