Nina Sankovitch

The Lowells of Massachusetts (eBook, ePUB)

An American Family

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Produktbeschreibung

The Lowells of Massachusetts were a remarkable family. They were settlers in the New World in the 1600s, revolutionaries creating a new nation in the 1700s, merchants and manufacturers building prosperity in the 1800s, and scientists and artists flourishing in the 1900s. For the first time, Nina Sankovitch tells the story of this fascinating and powerful dynasty in The Lowells of Massachusetts.

Though not without scoundrels and certainly no strangers to controversy , the family boasted some of the most astonishing individuals in America's history: Percival Lowle, the patriarch who arrived in America in the seventeenth to plant the roots of the family tree; Reverend John Lowell, the preacher; Judge John Lowell, a member of the Continental Congress; Francis Cabot Lowell, manufacturer and, some say, founder of the Industrial Revolution in the US; James Russell Lowell, American Romantic poet; Lawrence Lowell, one of Harvard's longest-serving and most controversial presidents; and Amy Lowell, the twentieth century poet who lived openly in a Boston Marriage with the actress Ada Dwyer Russell.

The Lowells realized the promise of America as the land of opportunity by uniting Puritan values of hard work, community service, and individual responsibility with a deep-seated optimism that became a well-known family trait. Long before the Kennedys put their stamp on Massachusetts, the Lowells claimed the bedrock.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: St. Martin's Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781466878112
• Artikelnr.: 46738310

Autorenporträt

Nina Sankovitch is the author of several nonfiction books, including American Rebels and The Lowells of Massachusetts. She has written for the New York Times, the Huffington Post as a contributing blogger, and was formerly a judge for The Book of the Month Club. A graduate of Tufts University and Harvard Law School, Sankovitch grew up in Evanston, Illinois, and currently lives in Connecticut with her family.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
Dramatis Personae
Prelude: Writing a Family's History
Part One: Migration
1. 1638-1639
2. 1639 16
3. 1639-1665
Part Two: Religion
4. 1724-1738
5. 1740-1754
6. 1755-1759
Part Three: Revolution
7. 1765-1774
8. 1774-1777
9. 1778-1789
Part Four: Acquisition
10. 1796-1802
11. 1802-1812
12. 1812-1817
13. 1817-1829
14. 1829-1840
Part Five: War
15. 1842
16. 1842-1850
17. 1850-1853
18. 1853-1861
19. 1861-1864
Part Six: Reinvention
20. June 9, 1888
21. 1891-1897
22. 1897-1900
23. 1901-1913
24. 1913-1917
25. 1917-1919
26. 1919-1922
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index