Henry Adams Summary

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Biographies (4)

1,200 words, approx. 5 pages
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
5,011 words, approx. 17 pages
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... Read more
6,250 words, approx. 21 pages
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
4,038 words, approx. 14 pages
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... Read more