Lecture - First of Hearts: Selected Letters of Mrs. Henry Adams by Max Byrd
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Phone: 1-86-NARA-NARA
Fax: 1-301-837-0483
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Newly re-published by Max Byrd, First of Hearts: Selected Letters of Mrs. Henry Adams, tells stories of entertaining in a magnificent Washington house, later to become the Hay-Adams hotel. Here Clover Adams, wife of Henry Adams, (grandson of John Quincy Adams) held a salon for politicians and writers including Henry James, General Sherman, McKinley, Clarence King, Oscar Wilde, and dozens of others. Her warm, chatty, hilariously perceptive letters expose Washington life and politics in the Gilded Age. Cokie Roberts will moderate a panel discussion and a book signing with the speakers will follow the program.
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Phone: 1-86-NARA-NARA
Fax: 1-301-837-0483
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