Published in 1884 by Henry Holt and Company
Chapter I
The new church of St. John’s, on Fifth Avenue,
was thronged the morning of the last Sunday of October,
in the year 1880. Sitting in th...
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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 Brooks Adams
Henry (Brooks) Adams