John Quincy and Louisa Adams’s unexpected journey that changed everything. American Phoenix is the sweeping, riveting tale of a grand historic adventure acros

Kilborne presents this account of 19th-century millionaire William Skinner, a leading founder of the American silk industry. He lost everything in a devastating

The first really original book on the classical period in American writing that has appeared for a long time.

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American Phoenix tells the gripping story of John Quincy Adams's "honorable exile" during the War of 1812 and the harrowing journey of his wife, Louisa, to be r