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The Education of Henry Adams & Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
● Two Classic Books by Henry Adams are in this Kindle eBook: "The Education of Henry Adams" & the prequel "Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres"
The Education of Henry Adams (1918)
In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, aging Bostonian Henry Adams (1838–1918) recalls his struggles to come to terms with the dawning 20th century. It is a meditation on the social, political, and intellectual changes in Adams's lifetime, and a critique of 19th century educational practice. The Modern Library puts it first of the top 100 English-language nonfiction books of the twentieth century.
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres (1905)
Mont Saint Michel and Chartres is also a journey into the medieval imagination. Adams looks at ordinary events in the context of the social conventions and beliefs of the thirteenth century. According to Raymond Carney's introduction, Adams' lends an exuberance—and puckish wit—to his writings.
About The Author
Pulitzer-prize winning author Henry Adams (1838 – 1918) was a Harvard graduate, historian and descendant of two U.S. Presidents.
His father, Charles Francis Adams, was Abraham Lincoln’s ambassador in London, and this post influenced the young man, educating him in wartime diplomacy and English culture. He was well known for his History of the United States During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, a 9-volume work.
The Education of Henry Adams (1918)
In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, aging Bostonian Henry Adams (1838–1918) recalls his struggles to come to terms with the dawning 20th century. It is a meditation on the social, political, and intellectual changes in Adams's lifetime, and a critique of 19th century educational practice. The Modern Library puts it first of the top 100 English-language nonfiction books of the twentieth century.
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres (1905)
Mont Saint Michel and Chartres is also a journey into the medieval imagination. Adams looks at ordinary events in the context of the social conventions and beliefs of the thirteenth century. According to Raymond Carney's introduction, Adams' lends an exuberance—and puckish wit—to his writings.
About The Author
Pulitzer-prize winning author Henry Adams (1838 – 1918) was a Harvard graduate, historian and descendant of two U.S. Presidents.
His father, Charles Francis Adams, was Abraham Lincoln’s ambassador in London, and this post influenced the young man, educating him in wartime diplomacy and English culture. He was well known for his History of the United States During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, a 9-volume work.
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Noted Henry Brooks Adams wrote his nine-volume History of the United States during the Administrations of Jefferson and Madison (1889-1891) and also The Education of Henry Adams , a famous autobiography, in 1918.
This oldest and most distinguished family in Boston produced John Adams and John Qunicy Adams, two American presidents, and thus gave Henry the opportunity to pursue a wide-ranging variety of intellectual interests during the course of his life. Functioning in the worlds of both practical men and affairs as a journalist and an assistant to his father, an American diplomat in Washington and London, and of ideas as a prolific writer, as the editor of the prestigious North American Review, and as a professor of medieval, European, and American history at Harvard, Adams of the few men of his era attempted to understand art, thought and culture as one complex force field of interacting energies.
He published Mont Saint Michel and Chartres , his masterwork in this dazzling effort, in 1904. Taken together with his other books, Adams in this spiritual, monumental volume attempts to bring together into a vast synthesis all of his knowledge of politics, economics, psychology, science, philosophy, art, and literature to attempt to understand the place of the individual in society. They constitute one of the greatest philosophical meditations on the human condition in all of literature.
Noted Henry Brooks Adams wrote his nine-volume History of the United States during the Administrations of Jefferson and Madison (1889-1891) and also The Education of Henry Adams , a famous autobiography, in 1918.
This oldest and most distinguished family in Boston produced John Adams and John Qunicy Adams, two American presidents, and thus gave Henry the opportunity to pursue a wide-ranging variety of intellectual interests during the course of his life. Functioning in the worlds of both practical men and affairs as a journalist and an assistant to his father, an American diplomat in Washington and London, and of ideas as a prolific writer, as the editor of the prestigious North American Review, and as a professor of medieval, European, and American history at Harvard, Adams of the few men of his era attempted to understand art, thought and culture as one complex force field of interacting energies.
He published Mont Saint Michel and Chartres , his masterwork in this dazzling effort, in 1904. Taken together with his other books, Adams in this spiritual, monumental volume attempts to bring together into a vast synthesis all of his knowledge of politics, economics, psychology, science, philosophy, art, and literature to attempt to understand the place of the individual in society. They constitute one of the greatest philosophical meditations on the human condition in all of literature.
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