Patricia O'Toole

Broschiertes Buch

The Five of Hearts

An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends, 1880-1918

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Patricia O’Toole is the author of five books, including The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made, When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt after the White House, and The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A former professor in the School of the Arts at Columbia University and a fellow of the Society of American Historians, she lives in Camden, Maine.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon & Schuster
• Seitenzahl: 482
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 776g
• ISBN-13: 9780743288231
• ISBN-10: 0743288238
• Artikelnr.: 22279349