James Truslow Adams

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James Truslow Adams (born October 18, 1878 in Brooklyn , New York, † May 18, 1949 in Westport , Connecticut) was an American historian and writer .

Life

Adams began his studies at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and graduated from Yale University in 1910 with an excellent result .

During the First World War he was a member of the military secret service. He took part in the peace negotiations in Versailles as a member of the US delegation.

After the war, Adams settled in New York as a writer and historian . For one of his first publications, The Founding of New England , the first volume in a trilogy that reinterpreted the ideals of the Puritans and their ancestors, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1921 . He later went to London to represent his publisher Charles Scribner . Since 1923 he was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters .

Adams died at the age of 71. His grave is in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, NY (Sect. 140, Lot 26607).

Adams coined the term American Dream in his book The Epic of America . He was not related to the Henry Adams family of politicians , with whom he had dealt with in a number of books and articles.

Works

  • The Founding of New England (1921)
  • Revolutionary New England (1923)
  • New England in the Republic (1926)
  • Provincial Society (1927)
  • The Adams Family (1930)
  • The Epic of America (1931)
  • Henry Adams (1933)
  • Dictionary of American history (1940) OCLC 1019589

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SURNAME Adams, James Truslow
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian and writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1949
Place of death Westport