Heirs of an Honored Name winter street Although many will remember the

Although many will remember the stirring adventures of the "Swamp Fox" from the Walt Disney television series of the late 1950s and the fictionalized Marion character played by Mel Gibson in the 2000 film The Patriot

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she is one of a community of Spanish Jews living double lives as Catholics

and uplifting" (Washington Post)

" --James Bradley

Heirs of an Honored Name winter street Although many will remember theAn 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