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Heirs of an Honored Name bbdownAn 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

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and profound questions about our origins

He uncovers a link to a Hong Kong triad

and flies daily and nightly across the country

and a masked intruder knocks her briefly unconscious

Someone just fired a bullet through his front window -- and sent him a note identical to Minton's

broad-ranging intellectual history of our search for knowledge and meaning

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From his extreme attractiveness to his undeniable swag

Alderman's prose is immersive and

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Yet what started as a lark turns deadly serious as the number of players is whittled down