{"product_id":"the-ides-of-vermont-a-tale-of-international-adventure-during-the-gilded-age-9780986333972","title":"The Ides of Vermont: A Tale of International Adventure During the Gilded Age","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the granite hills of nineteenth-century Vermont, Henry Clay Ide rose from teacher and small-town lawyer to diplomat and statesman, carrying his family with him into an extraordinary world of international politics, empire, royalty, writers, presidents, and social upheaval. The Ides of Vermont follows Henry and his remarkable family from New England to Samoa, the Philippines, Spain, Washington, New York, and Europe during the decades when the United States itself was moving from a largely domestic power onto the world stage. In Samoa, where Ide served first as Land Commissioner and later as Chief Justice, Robert Louis Stevenson and his family became close friends. In the Philippines, Ide rose to Secretary of Finance and Justice and Acting Governor-General. Later, as United States Minister to Spain, he and his daughters entered a diplomatic and social world populated by kings, politicians, writers, and some of the most recognizable personalities of the Gilded Age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the center of the family story is Henry's youngest daughter, Marjorie, willful, observant, and eventually indispensable as her widowed father's hostess. Through her, the story expands. The Ide circle grew to include William Howard Taft, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, William Bourke Cockran, Henry James, Spain's Alfonso XIII and Queen Victoria Eugenia, and John \"Shane\" Leslie, the Anglo-Irish baronet and first cousin of Winston Churchill whom Marjorie would marry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold principally through the alternating perspectives of Henry and Marjorie and drawn from family papers, letters, diaries, newspapers, and historical records, The Ides of Vermont combines intimate biography with a sweeping account of a changing America. Behind the adventures lie larger questions about ambition, family, duty, American expansionism, and the collision between New England values and the complicated exercise of power abroad. It is the story of a little-known American statesman and an extraordinary family who traveled from Vermont into history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cynthia Hoskin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780986333972\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 396\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.16lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d","brand":"Cynthia Osborne Hoskin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53459184386229,"sku":"9780986333972","price":17.81,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/9780986333972.jpg?v=1791297808","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-ides-of-vermont-a-tale-of-international-adventure-during-the-gilded-age-9780986333972","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}