Heirs of an honored name [electronic resource] : the decline of the Adams family and the rise of modern America / Douglas R. Egerton.
"John and Abigail Adams sired the first dynasty to shape American politics, but they would not witness their family's calamitous fall from grace. When President John Quincy Adams died in 1848, so began the slow death of the family's political legacy -- a decline that mirrored the fall of the Republi...
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Language: | English |
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New York :
Basic Books,
[2019]
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Decline of the Adams family and the rise of modern America
Heirs of an Honored Name: The Decline of the Adams Family and the Rise of Modern America |
Format: | Electronic eBook |
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Published: Basic Books, 2019
Heirs of an honored name : the decline of the Adams family and the rise of modern America
Published: Basic Books, 2019
Physical Description:
xiii, 460 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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