James Truslow Adams

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 Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, graduating in 1910 with an outstanding result at Yale University from.

During World War II he was a member of military intelligence. At the peace negotiations in Versailles, he participated as a member of the U.S. delegation.

After the war, Adams settled down as a writer and historian in New York. For one of his first publications, The Founding of New England, the first volume of a trilogy, the new interpretation of the ideals of the Puritans and their ancestors, his 1921 Pulitzer Prize for History has been awarded. Later he went as a representative of his publisher, Charles Scribner to London.

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

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

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)