James Truslow Adams
James Truslow Adams was an American writer and historian. He was not related to the famous Adams family . He was not an academic, but a freelance author who helped to popularize the latest scholarship about American history and his 3volume history of New England is well regarded by scholars.
Adams was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a wealthy family, the son of Elizabeth Harper and William Newton Adams, Jr. His father had been born in Caracas, Venezuela. His paternal grandfather William Newton Adams Sr. was American with roots in Virginia and his paternal grandmother Carmen Michelena de Salias was a Venezuelan of Spanish descent. Adams took his bachelors degree from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1898, and a MA degree from Yale University in 1900. He entered investment banking, rising to partner in a New York Stock Exchange member firm. In 1912, he considered his savings ample enough to switch his to a career as a writer.
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