The American historian and author Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) lived in an era of remarkable change and recorded the implications of the period with great perception. He is best known for "Mont-Sain...
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Henry Adams owes his popular reputation to a single work, The Education of Henry Adams. That book, which was privately printed in 1907 but not commercially published until just after the author's dea...
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No American historian of the nineteenth century has so enchanted, irritated, and impressed his contemporaries and successors as Henry Brooks Adams. He was and is his country's greatest historian, and ...
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The works of Henry Adams have received a tremendous amount of critical attention, with the majority of the scrutiny being directed at Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres (1904) and The Education of Henry...
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Henry Adams was a notable writer of American history. His success was expected considering his famous pedigree. His family tree bore golden apples. His maternal grandfather was Peter Chardon Brooks, ...
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Henry Adams lobbied for the Spanish-American War for years, ghosting speeches for key Senators, plotting with fellow hawks like Theodore Roosevelt, even visiting Cuba, Spain’s prize possessio...
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Humorous Mike Huckabee has become the sum of all fears for many members of the GOP establishment. Some of the attacks arise out of plain old Christophobia, and Huckabee can't do much about that. Bu...
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Chutzpah, the other night when I came to some lines on page 16 that I found shocking:
My generaton of Jews was too young to fight against Nazism or for Israeli independence, too American to make a...
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Ishmael Beah, author of a best-selling memoir about his time as a boy soldier in Sierra Leone, disputes newspaper reports that he had exaggerated his war service, telling The Associated Press on We...
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Like the conductor of his own chamber orchestra, Garry Wills presides over three metal music stands while at work in his study, his chosen "scores" including dictionaries of Greek, Latin and Italia...
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Now that Charles Peters has finished with Five Days in Philadelphia, we should draft him to overhaul the American history textbooks inflicted upon the youth of the nation. Dense in both senses of t...
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One score and nine years ago, Doris Kearns Goodwin launched her career as a Presidential historian with Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, a shrewd look at the oversized Texan she’d obser...
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One score and nine years ago, Doris Kearns Goodwin launched her career as a Presidential historian with Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, a shrewd look at the oversized Texan she’d obser...
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Now that Charles Peters has finished with Five Days in Philadelphia, we should draft him to overhaul the American history textbooks inflicted upon the youth of the nation. Dense in both senses of t...
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Henry Brooks Adams
Henry (Brooks) Adams
Biography of Henry Adams, Political and Historical Writer
In a Murky and Distant War It Comes Down to Warriors
