The Adams family
By: by James Truslow Adams ...
Publisher: The Literary guild
Published: 1930
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Adams family; Adams, John, 1735-1826; Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848; Adams, Charles Francis, 1807-1886; United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1865
Description: This volume 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. -- PREFACE.
Notes: First published, Boston, Little, Brown, and company, 1930.
"The chief purpose of the book is ... not at all genealogical, and only in a minor degree individually biographical."--Pref.
Table of contents: title: Preface.; title: Prologue.; title: The first generation: John Adams.; title: The second generation: John Quincy Adams.; title: The third generation: Charles Francis Adams.; title: The fourth generation: John Quincy, Charles Francis, Henry, and Brooks Adams.; title: Epilogue.