James truslow adams biography
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James Truslow Adams papers,
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James Truslow Adams
James Truslow Adams (October 18, in Brooklyn, N.Y. - May 18, in Southport, Conn.) was an American historian. He was not related to the famous Adams family (though he wrote a book about the family in ). He was not an academic, but a freelance author, and his three volume history of New England is well regarded by scholars.
Life and work
James Truslow Adams started an international living career, so to speak, shortly after his birth, when his parents decided to live for some time in Paris, France. Adams visited different schools in New York and took his bachelor's degree from the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute in , and a M.A. degree from Yale University in , though he was diasappointed from Yale University. Probably around /99, he entered the Wall Street company his father was working for. He changed to a railway company, the Central of Georgia, thereby earning more money and learning much about investment business. In he undertook a grand tour through Eu
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Adams, James Truslow
, –, American historian, b. Brooklyn, N.Y. (), which brought him the pris Prize in history for , was followed bygd () and (). Among the best of his many books are (Vol. III in the “History of American Life” series, ) and (), which was widely translated. () and () were books on the famous Massachusetts clan, to which he was not related. Adams spent much of his time in London as a representative of his publishers, Charles Scribner's Sons. He was editor in chief of (6 vol., ; rev. ed. ), (), and (4 vol., –48), three valuable reference works. Some of his later writings reflect his obvious distaste for the New Deal.
See biography bygd A. Nevins ().
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