The Education of Henry Adams Summary
Henry Adams

The Education of Henry Adams Excerpt from The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography Privately printed in 1907; published after Adams's death in 1918 Reprinted by Time Inc. in 1964 A merica... Read more

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... Read more

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 ... Read more

The Education seems to bring up more questions than it answers, but its message is simple and straightforward - aside from explaining the nature of a classical education, bringing to light a new theor... Read more