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America's First Dynasty: The Adamses, 1735-1918

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America's First Dynasty: The Adamses, 1735-1918

"Richard Brookhiser has won a wide and loyal following for his stylish, pointed, and elegant biographies of George Washington and Alexander Hamilton. In America's First Dynasty, Brookhiser tells the story of America's longest and still greatest dynasty -- the Adamses, the only family in our history to play a leading role in American affairs for nearly two centuries. From John, the self-made, tough-minded lawyer who rose to the highest office in the government he helped create; to John Quincy, the child prodigy who grew up amid foreign royalty, followed his father to the White House, and later reinvented himself as a champion of liberty in Congress; to politician and writer Charles Francis, the only well-balanced Adams; to Henry, brilliant scholar and journalist -- the Adamses achieved longer-lasting greatness than any other American family. Brookhiser's canvass starts in colonial America, when John Adams had to teach himself the law and ride on horseback for miles to find clients. It does not end until after the Titanic sinks -- Henry had booked a room but changed his plans -- and World War I begins, with Henry near the action in France. The story of this single family offers a short course in the nation's history, because for nearly two hundred years Adams history was American history. The Adamses were accompanied by an impressive cast of characters, from George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, to Andrew Jackson and Ulysses Grant, to Teddy Roosevelt. America's First Dynasty offers telling portraits of the great men of our past, and many of the women around them. John and Abigail's great love affair was destined to be repeated by their offspring and offspring's offspring.

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Title of ebook: America's First Dynasty: The Adamses, 1735-1918
ISBN: 9780743242097
Publisher: Free Press
Internet download file size: 500 kb
Pages: 256
Released online for download: 04-01-2002
Author of eBook: Brookhiser, Richard

Chapter One

The first time anyone asked a member of the Adams family about his famous ancestors, she was joking.

In April 1778, John Adams, lately of the Continental Congress, arrived in Bordeaux, France, to represent the new nation as a diplomat. His second day ashore, he was introduced to polite conversation at European dinner tables. "Mr. Adams," a pretty young woman asked him, "by your name I conclude you are descended from the first man and woman." Did he know of any family tradition that might explain how Adam and Eve "found out the art of lying together"? "I believe at first I blushed," wrote Adams in his diary that night, but "I was determined not to be disconcerted." He replied that a "physical quality," like magnetism, caused any pair of Adams and Eves that drew "within a striking distance" to fly together, "like the needle to the pole." "It is a very happy shock," the lady said.

John went on to assignments in Holland and Britain, as well as honors and offices at home, and soon enough Adamses were being questioned about t ... read full excerpt from America's First Dynasty: The Adamses, 1735-1918 ebook