Diary

by Charles Francis Adams, Jr.

Aida D. Donald and David Donald

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Third and last of the Adams dynasty of statesmen, Charles Francis Adams followed in his grandfather's and father's footsteps by keeping a diary from youth to old age. With only a few gaps in the earliest years, Charles Francis Adams' diary extends from 1820 to 1880, furnishing a massively detailed and intensely personal record of the writer's life as an undergraduate at Harvard, manager of the Adams family's business affairs, historian and biographer, Free Soil political leader and Republican Congressman, United States minister in London during the Civil War, arbitrator of the Alabama claims at the Geneva Tribunal, and...Read more
  • ISBN10 0674203992
  • ISBN13 9780674203990
  • Publish Date 1 December 1964
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 29 April 2014
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Harvard University Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 1063
  • Language English