{"product_id":"9781250069207","title":"The Lowells of Massachusetts: An American Family","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The Lowells of Massachusetts were a remarkable family. They were settlers in the New World in the 1600s, revolutionaries creating a new nation in the 1700s, merchants and manufacturers building prosperity in the 1800s, and scientists and artists flourishing in the 1900s. Drawing on prodigious research, Nina Sankovitch tells the story of this fascinating and powerful dynasty in The Lowells of Massachusetts. Though not without scoundrels and certainly no strangers to controversy , the family boasted some of the most astonishing individuals in America's history: Percival Lowle, the patriarch who arrived in America in the seventeenth century to plant the roots of the family tree; the Reverend John Lowell, the bighearted preacher; Judge John Lowell, a memberof the Continental Congress; Francis Cabot Lowell, a manufacturer and, some say, the founder of the Industrial Revolution in the United States; James Russell Lowell, an American Romantic poet; Lawrence Lowell, one of Harvard's longest-serving and most controversial presidents; and Amy Lowell, the Pulitzer Prize-winning twentieth century poet who lived openly in a Boston marriage with the actress Ada Dwyer Russell. The Lowells realized the promise of America as the land of opportunity by uniting the Puritan values of hard work, community service, and individual responsibility with a deep-seated optimism that became a well-known family trait. Long before the Kennedys set foot on Massachusetts soil, the Lowells claimed the bedrock.\"--Provided by publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49776776970488,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":78.33,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/8208\/6904\/files\/9781250069207-1.jpg?v=1783668691","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.au\/products\/9781250069207","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}