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By Barbara Spindel Correspondent Historian and memoirist Henry Adams never forgot the family gardener who, when Adams was a child, made him question his birthright with the stinging reproach, “You’ll be thinkin’ you’ll be President too!” Adams, a great-grandson of Founding Father and second president John Adams and a grandson of sixth president John Quincy Adams, never achieved the political prominence he at one time took for granted. In an excellent new biography, “The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams,...

HomeFront: Best of the Arts 2020 and more By Marie Morris Globe Correspondent,Updated December 18, 2020, 10:32 a.m. Email to a Friend The year's highlights include "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," a Nina Simone-inspired mural in the South End.David L. Ryan/Globe Staff Welcome back to HomeFront, where we’re shoveling snow, counting down to the winter solstice on Monday, and hanging on every word of the news about vaccines — or, as we like to think of them, get-out-of-jail-free cards magically crammed into little glass vials. The year that warped time is finally winding down, and that...

Caught between Boston and Quincy in ‘The Last American Aristocrat’ A new biography of Henry Adams describes a man of his time and place(s) By Craig Fehrman Globe Correspondent,Updated December 17, 2020, 5:14 p.m. Email to a Friend Mari Fouz for The Boston Globe (Custom credit) Despite America’s deep tradition of dynastic politics — think of the Kennedys, the Clintons, the Bushes — the country’s first family will always be the Adamses. For many decades John, John Quincy, and their various relations held key roles in national and New England politics. But one of th...