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The Five of Hearts

Autor Patricia O'Toole
en Limba Engleză Paperback – mar 2006
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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780743288231
ISBN-10: 0743288238
Pagini: 459
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.7 kg
Ediția:06000
Editura: Simon&Schuster

Recenzii

"The lesson of this book, a lesson that Adams himself drew from his own life, is that no matter how charmed your circle is, or how devoted its members are to each other, it cannot ward off life's tragedies. . . . A wonderful story." -- "USA Today"

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