The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends1880-1918
Patricia O'Toole
The Five of Hearts, who first gathered in Washington in the Gilded Age, included Henry Adams, historian and scion of America's first political dynasty; his wife, Clover, gifted photographer and tragic victim of depression; John Hay, ambassador and secretary of state; his wife, Clara, a Midwestern heiress; and Clarence King, pioneering geologist, entrepreneur, and man of mystery. They knew every president from Abraham Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt and befriended Henry James, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, and a host of other illustrious figures on both sides of the Atlantic.
عام:
2007
الإصدار:
1st
الناشر:
Simon and Schuster
اللغة:
english
الصفحات:
485
ISBN 10:
074329923X
ISBN 13:
9780743299237
ملف:
EPUB, 1.56 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2007