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Heirs of an honored name : the decline of the Adams family and the rise of modern America, Douglas R. Egerton
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- Summary
- "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 Republican Party. The Adamses would abandon their forefather's enlightened republicanism, yielding to the temptation of oligarchy and personal spoils. In Heirs of an Honored Name, award-winning historian Douglas Egerton depicts a family grown famous, wealthy -- and aimless. After the Civil War, the country's future was up for grabs. Republicans disillusioned with President Ulysses S. Grant's governance looked to the Adams family to steer their party back to its 1840s roots. Instead, family patriarch Charles Francis Sr. refused to fight for the nomination in 1872 and 1876, and the family eventually quit the political arena altogether for the luxuries of Gilded Age America. Heirs of an Honored Name tells the enthralling, troubling story of the nation's first family and the end of an older, aristocratic America amid the upheavals of the Gilded Age"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xiii, 460 pages
- Contents
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- Generations
- The assemblyman
- The free soiler
- The congressman
- The minister
- The officer
- The combatants
- The colonel
- The independents
- A singular, unsolved family
- Isbn
- 9780465093885
- Label
- Heirs of an honored name : the decline of the Adams family and the rise of modern America
- Title
- Heirs of an honored name
- Title remainder
- the decline of the Adams family and the rise of modern America
- Statement of responsibility
- Douglas R. Egerton
- Title variation
- Decline of the Adams family and the rise of modern America
- Subject
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- Adams family
- Braintree (Mass.) -- Biography
- trueExpectation (Psychology)
- trueLegacies
- trueMassachusetts
- truePoliticians -- United States
- truePoliticians' families
- trueRich families
- Statesmen -- United States -- Biography
- Statesmen's families -- United States -- Biography
- trueUnited States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1865
- Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848
- Adams, Charles Francis, 1807-1886
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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 Republican Party. The Adamses would abandon their forefather's enlightened republicanism, yielding to the temptation of oligarchy and personal spoils. In Heirs of an Honored Name, award-winning historian Douglas Egerton depicts a family grown famous, wealthy -- and aimless. After the Civil War, the country's future was up for grabs. Republicans disillusioned with President Ulysses S. Grant's governance looked to the Adams family to steer their party back to its 1840s roots. Instead, family patriarch Charles Francis Sr. refused to fight for the nomination in 1872 and 1876, and the family eventually quit the political arena altogether for the luxuries of Gilded Age America. Heirs of an Honored Name tells the enthralling, troubling story of the nation's first family and the end of an older, aristocratic America amid the upheavals of the Gilded Age"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- collective biography
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10824129
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Egerton, Douglas R
- Dewey number
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- 973.5/50922
- B
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E322.1.A39
- LC item number
- E36 2019
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Adams family
- Adams, John Quincy
- Adams, Charles Francis
- Statesmen
- Statesmen's families
- United States
- Braintree (Mass.)
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- the decline of the Adams family and the rise of modern America
- Label
- Heirs of an honored name : the decline of the Adams family and the rise of modern America, Douglas R. Egerton
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Generations -- The assemblyman -- The free soiler -- The congressman -- The minister -- The officer -- The combatants -- The colonel -- The independents -- A singular, unsolved family
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xiii, 460 pages
- Isbn
- 9780465093885
- Lccn
- 2019011712
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)1085617468
- 3239097
- Label
- Heirs of an honored name : the decline of the Adams family and the rise of modern America, Douglas R. Egerton
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Generations -- The assemblyman -- The free soiler -- The congressman -- The minister -- The officer -- The combatants -- The colonel -- The independents -- A singular, unsolved family
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xiii, 460 pages
- Isbn
- 9780465093885
- Lccn
- 2019011712
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)1085617468
- 3239097
Subject
- Adams family
- Braintree (Mass.) -- Biography
- trueExpectation (Psychology)
- trueLegacies
- trueMassachusetts
- truePoliticians -- United States
- truePoliticians' families
- trueRich families
- Statesmen -- United States -- Biography
- Statesmen's families -- United States -- Biography
- trueUnited States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1865
- Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848
- Adams, Charles Francis, 1807-1886
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