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Adams, Brooks

Adams, Brooks

(1848–1927) historian, lawyer; born in Quincy, Mass. (grandson of President John Quincy Adams, son of Charles Francis Adams, brother of Henry Adams). After graduating from Harvard (1870), he served his father as secretary in Geneva and practiced law in Boston. His major historical work, The Law of Civilization and Decay (1895), a cyclical view of history, influenced his brother Henry. He lectured on law at Boston University (1904–11).
The Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography, by John S. Bowman. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995. Reproduced with permission.
References in periodicals archive
Adams, Brooks. "Privileged Portraits: Vigee-LeBrun." Art in America (November 1982): 75-81.
Elisabeth Vigee-LeBrun: a woman of independent means
We had a boundary dispute with it over Venezuela, which meant that we could invoke the all-purpose Monroe Doctrine (the invention of John Quincy Adams, Brooks's grandfather).
Geopolitical thoughts; requiem for the American empire
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