Heirs of an Honored Name winter street and uplifting" (Washington Post)

and uplifting" (Washington Post)

" --James Bradley

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Heirs of an Honored Name winter street and uplifting" (Washington Post)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