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America's Political Dynasties : From Adams to Clinton, Hardback Book

America's Political Dynasties : From Adams to Clinton Hardback

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America's political families, from the Adams to the Bushes and the Clintons. America was founded in rebellion against nobility and inherited status.

Yet from the start, dynastic families have been conspicuous in national politics.

The Adamses. The Lodges. The Tafts. The Roosevelts. The Kennedys. And today the Bushes and the Clintons. In this thoroughly revised and updated edition of his bestselling work, longtime presidential historian Stephen Hess offers an encyclopedic tour of the families that have loomed large over America's political history.

Starting with John Adams, who served as the young nation's first vice president and earned the nickname "His Rotundity", Hess paints the portraits of the men and women who, by coincidence, connivance, or sheer sense of duty, have made up America's political elite.

There are the well-known dynasties such as the Roosevelts and the Kennedys, and the names that live on only in history books, such as the Bayards (six generations of U.S. senators) and the Breckinridges (a vice president, two senators, and six representatives). Hess fills the pages of America's Political Dynasties with anecdotes and personality-filled stories of the families who have given the United States more than a fair share of its presidents, senators, governors, ambassadors, and cabinet members. This new edition also tells us the stories of the Bushes and what looks to be a political dynasty in waiting, the Clintons. And emblematic of America's growing diversity, Hess examines how women, along with ethnic and racial minorities, have joined the ranks of dynastic political families. The Constitution states that "no title of nobility shall be granted by the United States".

Yet, as Stephen Hess has written, it seems political nobility is as American as apple pie.

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