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The Five of Hearts, who first gathered in Washington in the Gilded Age, included Henry Adams, historian and scion of America's first political dynasty; his wife, Clover, gifted photographer and tragic victim of depression; John Hay, ambassador and secretary of state; his wife, Clara, a Midwestern heiress; and Clarence King, pioneering geologist, entrepreneur, and man of mystery. They knew every president from Abraham Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt and befriended Henry James, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, and a host of other illustrious figures on both sides of the Atlantic.

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Book category Knihy po anglicky Biography & True Stories Biography: general

• Full title: Five of Hearts
• Subtitle: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends, 1880-1918
• Author: Patricia O'Toole
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 482
• EAN: 9780743288231
• ISBN: 0743288238
• ID: 04670747
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Weight: 702 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 27 mm
• Date of publishing: 10. March 2006

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