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Democracy
An American Novel
by Henry Adams
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Originally published anonymously, "Democracy" is essentially an issue-driven novel. Mrs. Madeleine Lightfoot Lee, a bright and wealthy woman, arrives in Washington D.C. looking for a husband in the form of a great statesman. Her cousin, a Confederate veteran named John Carrington, falls in love with her, but she wants nothing to do with him. Having accepted the defeat of the South, he works as a lawyer in what he considers the enemy's land, but it seems he is not glamorous enough for Madeleine Lee.
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2003
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2004
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2007
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2008
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2008
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2008
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2008
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2001
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North Books,
2001
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9780403057245,
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Reprint Services Corp,
1976
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9780804901642,
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Airmont Pub Co,
1979
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9780808404309,
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New College & Univ Pr,
1991
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9781556852558,
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Audio Book Contractors,
1992
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9780143039808,
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Penguin Classics,
2008
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Reprint Services Corp,
1985
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2007
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Media Reviews
"The too-easy irony of the situation makes one hesitate to use Henry Adams against himself--to instance the enduring quality of his own work in contradiction of his belief that American society was deteriorating to the point where he could no longer speak to it. Only the urbanity of 'Democracy', the constant play of wit around its serious theme, possibly suggests, by its contrast to the deadly earnestness of the present-day political novel, that we may indeed have traveled a certain distance down the road from grace, as Adams defined grace. For the rest, almost seventy-five years after it was first published, Adams' novel is as relevant to our time as the current Presidential campaigns."
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