James Truslow Adams

1878–1949 · American historian and writer

James Truslow Adams was an American writer and historian, born in Brooklyn. He worked in investment banking before he became a freelance author. He won a Pulitzer Prize for History for The Founding of New England, and he coined the phrase “American Dream” in The Epic of America (1931). Wikipedia traces his family line to a Maryland settler, Francis Adams, and gives no link to the family of President John Adams.

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“There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live”

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