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The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends, 1880–1918

Patricia O'Toole

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The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends, 1880–1918

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.

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Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Year
2007
ISBN-13
9780743299237
Genre
Biography & Memoir
Topics
Gilded Age AmericaFriendship among intellectualsWashington political and literary society

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