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Heirs of an Honored Name
Douglas R Egerton
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The Decline of the Adams Family and the Rise of Modern America
出版Hachette UK, 2019-10-29
主題History / United States / 19th CenturyBiography & Autobiography / PoliticalHistory / Modern / 19th CenturyHistory / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)Political Science / American Government / NationalPolitical Science / Political Ideologies / Conservatism & LiberalismBiography & Autobiography / Historical
ISBN154169970X9781541699700
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=dJmIDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋An enthralling chronicle of the American nineteenth century told through the unraveling of the nation's first political dynasty

John and Abigail Adams founded a famous political family, but they would not witness its calamitous fall from grace. When John Quincy Adams died in 1848, so began the slow decline of the family's political legacy.

In Heirs of an Honored Name, award-winning historian Douglas R. Egerton depicts a family grown famous, wealthy -- and aimless. After the Civil War, Republicans looked to the Adamses to steer their party back to its radical 1850s roots. Instead, Charles Francis Sr. and his children -- Charles Francis Jr., John Quincy II, Henry and Clover Adams, and Louisa Adams Kuhn -- largely quit the political arena and found refuge in an imagined past of aristocratic preeminence.

An absorbing story of brilliant siblings and family strain, Heirs of an Honored Name shows how the burden of impossible expectations shaped the Adamses and, through them, American history.