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Heirs of an Honored Name: The Decline of the Adams Family and the Rise of Modern America

byDouglas Egerton

Heirs of an Honored Name is Douglas Egerton's biographical portrait of the Decline of the Adams Family and the Rise of Modern America. Its account follows central actors and turning points while showing how the story reflects questions in the connected fields of biography & autobiography and history. The result avoids a single easy lesson, emphasizing instead how circumstances, institutions, and individual choices interacted over time. What emerges is a nuanced account of the subject, its immediate consequences, and its wider meaning.

Publisher

Basic Books

Publication date

2019

Format

Print edition

Pages

480

ISBN

9780465093885