The Boston Globe, November 13th, 2005
Grandson and great-grandson of presidents, and author of 13 volumes on the history of the United States in the first two decades of the 19th century, Henry Adams, according to Garry Wills, "has become a wholly owned subsidiary of English departments." Literary critics have anointed "The Education of Henry Adams," published posthumously in 1918, as a classic. A narrative of personal and national failure, soaked in irony, "The Education" traced the degradation and dissipation of all physical and psychic energies in compliance with the second law of thermodynamics. Adams became a poster boy for d...
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