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A Short Biography of Brooks Adams

Author Name:

Brooks Adams

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Born:

24 Jun 1848

Died:

13 Feb 1927




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Historian                          
Selected Works:

The Emancipation of Massachusetts - 1887
The Gold Standard: An Historical Study - 1894
The Law of Civilization and Decay - 1895
America's Economic Supremacy - 1900
The New Empire - 1902
Theory of Social Revolutions - 1913                          
Grandson of John Quincy Adams - son of U.S. diplomat Charles Francis Adams, and brother to Henry Brooks Adams.                          
Graduated from Harvard University in 1870 and studied at
 Harvard Law School in 1870 and 1871.
A  critic of capitalism.