The Education of Henry Adams

The Education of Henry Adams

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  • Author: Henry Adams
  • Publisher: Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages :

The Education of Henry Adams is an autobiography that records the struggle of Bostonian Henry Adams (1838–1918), in his later years, to come to terms with the dawning 20th century, so different from the world of his youth. It is also a sharp critique of 19th-century educational theory and practice. In 1907, Adams began privately circulating copies of a limited edition printed at his own expense. Commercial publication of the book had to await its author's 1918 death, whereupon it won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize. The Modern Library placed it first in a list of the top 100 English-language nonfiction books of the 20th century.


The Last American Aristocrat

The Last American Aristocrat

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  • Author: David S. Brown
  • Publisher: Simon and Schuster
  • ISBN: 1982128240
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 464

A “marvelous…compelling” (The New York Times Book Review) biography of literary icon Henry Adams—one of America’s most prominent writers and intellectuals, who witnessed and contributed to the United States’ dramatic transition from a colonial society to a modern nation. Henry Adams is perhaps the most eclectic, accomplished, and important American writer of his time. His autobiography and modern classic The Education of Henry Adams was widely considered one of the best English-language nonfiction books of the 20th century. The last member of his distinguished family—after great-grandfather John Adams, and grandfather John Quincy Adams—to gain national attention, he is remembered today as an historian, a political commentator, and a memoirist. Now, historian David Brown sheds light on the brilliant yet under-celebrated life of this major American intellectual. Adams not only lived through the Civil War and the Industrial Revolution but he met Abraham Lincoln, bowed before Queen Victoria, and counted Secretary of State John Hay, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, and President Theodore Roosevelt as friends and neighbors. His observations of these powerful men and their policies in his private letters provide a penetrating assessment of Gilded Age America on the cusp of the modern era. “Thoroughly researched and gracefully written” (The Wall Street Journal), The Last American Aristocrat details Adams’s relationships with his wife (Marian “Clover” Hooper) and, following her suicide, Elizabeth Cameron, the young wife of a senator and part of the famous Sherman clan from Ohio. Henry Adams’s letters—thousands of them—demonstrate his struggles with depression, familial expectations, and reconciling with his unwanted widower’s existence. Offering a fresh window on nineteenth century US history, as well as a more “modern” and “human” Henry Adams than ever before, The Last American Aristocrat is a “standout portrait of the man and his era” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).


The Education of Henry Adams

The Education of Henry Adams

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  • Author: Henry Adams
  • Publisher: The Floating Press
  • ISBN: 1775414426
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 774

The Education of Henry Adams is the autobiography of the Bostonian Henry Adams. As he approached his seventieth birthday when "the mind wakes to find itself looking blankly into the void of death," Adams wrote and privately printed 100 copies of his "Education", a reflection on the incredible events of the 19th century. Adams meditates on his sense of disorientation with the scientific and technological expansion over his lifetime. After his death the book was commercially published, going on to become a best-seller and to win the Pulitzer Prize.


Henry Adams and the Making of America

Henry Adams and the Making of America

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  • Author: Garry Wills
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • ISBN: 9780618872664
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 490

Bestselling author Wills showcases Henry Adams little-known but seminal studyof the early United States, and draws from it fresh insights on the paradoxesthat roil America to this day.


Democracy

Democracy

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  • Author: Henry Adams
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Legislators
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 316


The Education of Henry Adams

The Education of Henry Adams

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  • Author: Henry Adams
  • Publisher: Standard Ebooks
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 563

One of the most well-known and influential autobiographies ever written, The Education of Henry Adams is told in the third person, as if its author were watching his own life unwind. It begins with his early life in Quincy, the family seat outside of Boston, and soon moves on to primary school, Harvard College, and beyond. He learns about the unpredictability of politics from statesmen and diplomats, and the newest discoveries in technology, science, history, and art from some of the most important thinkers and creators of the day. In essentially every case, Adams claims, his education and upbringing let him down, leaving him in the dark. But as the historian David S. Brown puts it, this is a “charade”: The Education’s “greatest irony is its claim to telling the story of its author’s ignorance, confusion, and misdirection.” Instead, Adams uses its “vigorous prose and confident assertions” to attack “the West after 1400.” For instance, industrialization and technology make Adams wonder “whether the American people knew where they were driving.” And in one famous chapter, “The Dynamo and the Virgin,” he contrasts the rise of electricity and the power it brings with the strength and resilience of religious belief in the Middle Ages. The grandson and great-grandson of two presidents and the son of a politician and diplomat who served under Lincoln as minister to Great Britain, Adams was born into immense privilege, as he knew well: “Probably no child, born in the year, held better cards than he.” After growing up a Boston Brahmin, he worked as a journalist, historian, and professor, moving in early middle age to Washington. Although Adams distributed a privately printed edition of a hundred copies of The Education for friends and family in 1907, it wasn’t published more widely until 1918, the year he died. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1919, and in 1999 a Modern Library panel placed it first on its list of the best nonfiction books published in the twentieth century. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.


The Letters of Henry Adams

The Letters of Henry Adams

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  • Author: Henry Adams
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • ISBN: 9780674526860
  • Category : Historians
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 910


Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres

Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres

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  • Author: Henry Adams
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Architecture, Medieval
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 452


Henry Adams

Henry Adams

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  • Author: James P. Young
  • Publisher: University Press of Kansas
  • ISBN: 0700631828
  • Category : Political Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 328

Henry Adams has been a neglected figure in recent years. The Education of Henry Adams is widely accepted as a classic of American letters, but his other work is little read except by specialists. His brilliant journalism is out of print, while Mont Saint Michel and Chartres and the novels Democracy and Esther receive little attention. Even the monumental History of the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, considered by some to be the greatest history written by any American, seems noticed only by scholars of that period. James P. Young, author of the highly regarded Reconsidering American Liberalism, seeks to revive interest in the thought of Adams by extracting core ideas from his writings concerning both American political development and the course of world history and then showing their relevance to the contemporary longing for a democratic revival. In this revisionist study, Young denies that Adams was a reactionary critic of democracy and instead contends that he was an idealistic, though often disappointed, advocate of representative government. Young focuses on Adams's belief that capitalist industrial development during the Gilded Age had debased American ideals and then turns to a careful study of Adams's famous contrast of the unity of medieval society with the fragmentation of modern technological society. Though fully aware of Adams's concerns about technology, Young rejects the idea that Adams was bitterly opposed to twentieth century developments in that field. He shows that though a liberal democrat with inclinations toward reform, Adams is much too sophisticated to be captured by any simple label.


The Education of Henry Adams

The Education of Henry Adams

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  • Author: Henry Adams
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Historians
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 546

"This volume, written in 1905, as a sequel to the same author's 'Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres,' was privately printed ... in 1906 ... The Massachusetts Historical Society now publishes the 'Education' as it was printed in 1907, with only such marginal corrections as the author made."--Editor's preface, signed: Henry Cabot Lodge.