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Author: Garry Wills Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 9780618872664 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 490
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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.
Author: Garry Wills Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 9780618872664 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 490
Book Description
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.
Author: David S. Brown Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1982128240 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 464
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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).
Author: Henry Adams Publisher: Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages :
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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.
Author: William Merrill Decker Publisher: ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 410
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To many he speaks with unprecedented urgency. For Henry Adams at the turn of the twentieth century, as for his successors in the twenty-first, the relation of mind to a world remade by technology and geopolitical conflict largely determines the destiny of civil life. Henry Adams and the Need to Know presents fourteen essays that articulate Adams's ongoing interest to both scholarly and general readerships, stressing his eclecticism and his need to clarify the role of critical intelligence in public life.
Author: Michael Henry Adams Publisher: Hachette Digital, Inc. ISBN: 9780821228470 Category : House & Home Languages : en Pages : 160
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Celebrating the African-American tradition of style and creativity in home design and decoration, this richly illustrated study looks at the unique homes of hip-hop entrepreneur Russell Simmons, photographer Gordon Parks, Congressman Charles Rangel, and other African-American artists and professionals. 20,000 first printing.
Author: Garry Wills
Author: Garry Wills
Author: David S. Brown
Author: Henry Adams
Author: Henry Adams
Author: Henry Adams
Author: Henry Adams
Author: Henry Adams
Author: William Merrill Decker
Author: Michael Henry Adams
Author: Henry Adams