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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext "[A] stirring saga...Vivid and intimate, Ms. Sankovitch's account entertains us with Puritans and preachers, Tories and rebels, abolitionists and industrialists, lecturers and poets ... Ms. Sankovitch has made a compelling contribution to Massachusetts and American History."-Roger Lowenstein, The Wall Street Journal " Sankovitch has searched out these letters to write the powerful story of one of America's most extraordinary families, a family that helped shape the course of American history in dramatic and decisive ways...By the final pages of this volume, one feels deeply attached to the individual Lowells, while also exhilarated at having experienced this grand sweep of American history." -Charlotte Gordon, Washington Post 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
