The Lowells of Massachusetts

An American Family

By: Nina Sankovitch

Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin

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.

Though no strangers to controversy, the family boasted some of the most astonishing individuals in America's history: Percival Lowle, the patriarch who planted the roots of the family tree; Reverend John Lowell, the preacher; Judge John Lowell, a member of the Continental Congress; Francis Cabot Lowell, who some say was founder of the Industrial Revolution in the US; James Russell Lowell, American Romantic poet; Lawrence Lowell, one of Harvard's most controversial presidents; and Amy Lowell, the 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 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 put their stamp on Massachusetts, the Lowells claimed the bedrock.

©2017 Nina Sankovitch (P)2017 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

What an amazing family

This was an incredible narrative. I was enthralled by most of this. I annoy imagine a curious reader not loving a great deal of this book. To find out how much poetry meant to soldiers, to suffer through unexpected deaths and losses, to overcome or be overwhelmed. Remarkable.

I'm proud to bear the Lowell name!

I'm proud to be descended, albeit distantly, and to bear the last name of this amazing family! Nina Sankovitch has written a superb history of the Lowells from 1639 to 1925. Her account reads like a novel and Jo Anna Perrin's reading does it full justice. I highly recommend this!

worth your time

Interesting story of a dymamic family who kept it going for generations. Story and narrator are excellent. I love biographies.You get the interresting lives of the Lowell's and a 300 year linear timeline of our early colonial period to 1925. The author had to do an incredible amount of research to put the book together. The narrator was clear and concise. Perfect pace. Best thing I've done in a while was subscribe to audible!
PJ