1973
| Henry Adams was born in 1838. He was an American novelist, journalist and academic. Adams was born into one of America's most prominent political families with both his grandfather and great grandfather being U S presidents. After attending Harvard Adams went on a grand tour of Europe. On his return he became his father's personal secretary and accompanied him to London. On returning to the US he settled in Washington working as a journalist and then becoming a professor of Medieval History at H....[more] |
| An instant bestseller when first published in 1880, Democracy is the quintessential American political novel. At its heart is Madeleine Lee, a young widow who comes to Washington, D.C., to understand the workings of power. Pursued by Silas Ratcliffe, the most influential member of the Senate, Madeleine soon sees enough of power and its corrupting influence to last her a lifetime. |
| The relationship, between reader and writer, of son and father, may have existed in Queen Elizabeth's time, but is much too close to be true for ours. The utmost that any writer could hope of his readers now is that they should consent to regard themselves as nephews, and even then he would expect only a more or less civil refusal from most of them. Indeed, if he had reached a certain age, he would have observed that nephews, as a social class, no longer read at all, and that there is only one f....[more] |
1917
| Novel from the American historian, journalist and novelist from one of the USA's most prominent families |
1898
| Possibly the first work of literary criticism to examine the alienation of the artist from American culture. A self-revelation of Adams's brilliant & complex mind, illuminating the ambiguities of The Education of Henry Adams; crucial to a complete understanding of Adams's late career. |
| 1920. This new book is a record of the gathering of data in the department of human government by three generations of America's most distinguished thinkers, whose lives cover almost the entire period of the American experiment. Here are included three brilliant essays-expressing and emphasizing the creed which has become the heritage of Henry Adams. The result may be summed up in this remarkable conclusion: Vox populi non est vox Dei. As in physics, so also in mind and administration. The theor....[more] |
1920
| 1920. With a niece's memories by Mabel La Farge. A selection of letters and notes by Adams, world traveler, cosmopolitan, and member of the most prominent family of the country, which included a grandfather and a great-grandfather who had been presidents, and a father who was Congressman and Minister to Britain. Henry Adams summarized his notions of travel in a letter to one of his nieces: My idea of paradise is a perfect automobile going thirty miles an hour on a smooth road to a twelfth-centur....[more] |
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