Heirs of an Honored Name: The Decline of the Adams Family and the Rise of Modern America, by Douglas R. Egerton A crime can never be

A crime can never be covered up forever

Few have ever accepted Charity’s old-fashioned ways…until now

but struggles to find her place within the constructs that enable its study

William Jennings Bryan

and Jackson was on his way to the presidency

Heirs of an Honored Name: The Decline of the Adams Family and the Rise of Modern America, by Douglas R. Egerton A crime can never beAn enthralling chronicle of the American nineteenth century told through the unraveling of the nation's first political dynasty John and Abigail Adams founded a famous political family, but they would not witness its calamitous fall from grace. When John Quincy Adams died in 1848, so began the slow decline of the family's political legacy. In Heirs of an Honored Name , award winning historian Douglas R. Egerton depicts a family grown famous, wealthy