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The Education of Henry Adams

by Henry Adams

ISBN: 0395166209
ISBN-13: 9780395166208
Format: Paperback

Summary

Published posthumously in 1918, this book won the Pulitzer Prize in 1919. In this autobiography, Adams confronts the way he was raised, asserting that he and other men of his generation were singularly unprepared for the chaos unleashed upon civilization by the economic and technical innovations as the end of the 19th century drew near. More than any other work of Adams's, his "Education" has made his reputation as a probing intellect striving to make sense of the world around him.

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"...[W]herein lies the greatness of the book? It lies, I submit, in the extraordinarily vivid sense conveyed to the reader of history being formed under his eyes, in the crystallization of the twentieth century out of the simple substance of the eighteenth. I know of no other autobiography (as I shall impenitently insist on calling it) which conveys anything like the same effect."    -- Louis Auchincloss

"I have been reading 'The Education of Henry Adams' and feel tremendously its importance as a piece of American writing. New England can scarcely go further than that. It must be in its way very complete. We do I am sure live and die better in the Middle West. Nothing about us is as yet so completely and racially tired."    -- Sherwood Anderson

"It is a book of unique richness, of unforgettable comment and challenging thought, a book delightful, whimsical, deep-thinking, suggestive, a book greatly worth the waiting for....There are sentences, paragraphs, whole pages that the reviewer is deeply tempted to quote. Suffice it again to recommend the public to read the book as a whole!"

   -- New York Times

Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin College Div
Published date: 1973
Size: 5.25 x 8.25 inches
Weight: 1.5 pounds

Publisher's Notes

The American historian reflects on his own life and educational experiences and illuminates events in the nineteenth century.

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