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02991aam a22004578i 4500 001 E5A9533CFC6C11E9AD739D3597128E48 003 SILO 005 20191101010024 008 190603t20192019nyua b 001 0ceng 010 $a 2019011712 020 $a 0465093884 020 $a 9780465093885 035 $a (OCoLC)1085617468 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d OCL $d CMI $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-ma $a n-us-ma 050 00 $a E322.1.A39 $b E36 2019 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Egerton, Douglas R., $e author. 245 10 $a Heirs of an honored name : $b the decline of the Adams family and the rise of modern America / $c Douglas Egerton. 246 30 $a Decline of the Adams family and the rise of modern America 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Basic Books, $c 2019. 300 $a xiii, 460 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Generations -- The assemblyman -- The free soiler -- The congressman -- The minister -- The officer -- The combatants -- The colonel -- The independents -- A singular, unsolved family 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 30 $a Adams family. 600 10 $a Adams, John Quincy, $d 1767-1848. 600 10 $a Adams, Charles Francis, $d 1807-1886. 651 0 $a United States $x Politics and government $y 1783-1865. 650 0 $a Statesmen $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Statesmen's families $z United States $v Biography. 651 0 $a Braintree (Mass.) $v Biography. 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 3 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317014421.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200204031129.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20191101010130.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E5A9533CFC6C11E9AD739D3597128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search