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James Truslow Adams Historian

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: United States
  • Born: Oct 18, 1878
  • Died: May 18, 1949

James Truslow Adams was an American writer and historian. He was not related to the famous Adams family. He was not an academic, but 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.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind. attitude

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us. best & good

The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry. freedom

Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline. age