Clover Adams

A biography of one of the Gilded Age’s most fascinating and mysterious society women that “reads as well as any page-turning novel” ( Library Journal ). At twenty-eight, Clover Adams, a fiercely intelligent Boston Brahmin, married the soon-to-be-eminent American historian Henry Adams. She thrived in her role as an intimate of power brokers in Gilded Age Washington, where she was admired for her wit and taste by such luminaries as Henry James, H. H. Richardson, and General William Tecumseh Sherma