Top Highlights

• from the comparatively narrow paths pioneered by grandfather
• I’ve outlived at least three quite distinct worlds
• Henry Adams. He seemed to know everybody, travel everywhere, and do everything.
• pressure-packed political family familiar with depression, alcoholism, and suicide.
• For a while Charles Francis doubted even the legality of slavery’s elimination. Though he believed black bondage an obvious evil, he pedantically questioned Lincoln’s presidential powers to end the institution.