James Truslow Adams: Difference between revisions

'''James Truslow Adams''' (October 18, 1878 – May 18, 1949)<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Brennan |first1=Elizabeth A. |last2=Clarage |first2=Elizabeth C. |year=1999 |title=Who's Who of Pulitzer Prize Winners |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=63nvmt4HqTEC |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=9781573561112 |language=en}}</ref> was an [[United States|American]] writer and [[historian]]. He was 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.<ref>{{Cite book |year=1983 |last=Wilson |first=Clyde N. |title=Dictionary of Literary Biography |publisher=Gale |volume=Volume 17: ''Twentieth-Century American Historians'' |pages=3–8}}</ref> He popularized the phrase "[[American Dream]]" in his 1931 book ''[[The Epic of America]]''.