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James Truslow Adams
American writer and historian
For other people named James Adams, see James Adams (disambiguation).
James Truslow Adams (October 18, 1878 – May 18, 1949)[1] was an American writer and historian.
He was a freelance author who helped to popularize the latest scholarship about American history and his three-volume history of New England is well regarded by scholars.[2] He popularized the phrase "American Dream" in his 1931 book The Epic of America.
Early life
Adams was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a wealthy family, the son of Elizabeth Harper (née Truslow) and stockbrokerWilliam Newton Adams Jr.[3]
His father had been born in Caracas, Venezuela.
His paternal grandfather, William Newton Adams Sr., was American of English descent with roots in Virginia and his paternal grandmother, Carmen Michelena de Salias, a Venezuelan of Spanish descent with roots in eighteenth-century Gipuzkoa and Seville.[4] The earliest p