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Chargement... The Adams family (original 1930; édition 1930)par James Truslow Adams
Information sur l'oeuvreThe Adams Family par James Truslow Adams (1930)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. The Epilogue states that Charles Francis Adams III, "is head of the family & Secretary of that Navy which was founded by John." The book was published in 1930, during the great depression! I wonder how many of John Adams' descendants are alive today & what are they doing? ( ) 3541. The Adams Family, by James Truslow Adams (read 16 Feb 2002) This is a 1930 book on four generations of the Adams family, obviously read as a result of reading David McCullough's superb bio of John. Since this book covers John and his son and grandson and great-grandsons in far fewer pages than McCullough devoted to John, it is abbreviated-sounding--and not as hagiographical as McCullough in regard to John. The family is an amazing one and well worth the time I have spent on it (which includes not only McCullough's book but Page Smith's two volume bio of John, Samuel Flagg Bemis' two volume bio of John Quincy Adams, and Ernest Samuels' three-volume bio of Henry Adams). aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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In the tradition of Kay Redfield Jamison's "An Unquiet Mind," "Acquainted with the Night" is a powerful memoir of one man's struggle to deal with the adolescent depression and bipolar disorder of his son and his daughter. Seven years ago Paul Raeburn's son, Alex, eleven, was admitted to a psychiatric hospital after leaving his fifth-grade classroom in an inexplicable rage. He was hospitalized three times over the next three years until he was finally diagnosed by a psychiatrist as someone exhibiting a clear-cut case of bipolar disorder. This ended a painful period of misdiagnosis and inappropriate drug therapy. Then Raeburn's younger daughter, Alicia, twelve, was diagnosed as suffering from depression after episodes of self-mutilation and suicidal thoughts. She too was repeatedly admitted to psychiatric hospitals. All during this terrible, painful time, Raeburn's marriage was disintegrating, and he had to ask what he and his wife might have done, unwittingly, to contribute to their children's mental illness. And so, literally to save his children's lives, he used all the resources available to him as a science reporter and writer to educate himself on their diseases and the various drugs and therapies available to help them return from a land of inner torment. In Paul Raeburn's skilled hands, this memoir of a family stricken with the pain of depression and mania becomes a cathartic story that any reader can share, even as parents unlucky enough to be in a similar position will find it of immeasurable practical value in their own struggles with the child psychiatry establishment. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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