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THE EDUCATION OF HENRY ADAMS is the autobiography of the author and historian who also happened to be the son of Charles Francis Adams, an American diplomat, and the grandson of an American president. The book profiles the events that shaped him and the people who influenced him. Probably the most important autobiography that has yet been written in America, it has exercised an enormous influence in American letters. Privately printed in 1907, this chronicle of a brilliant career and a constant spiritual quest aroused profound admiration among scholars. When published for general circulation in 1918, it immediately won and has since held an assured place among the significant works in American literature.
"Sentences, paragraphs, whole pages call for quotation. Suffice it to recommend the book be read as a whole." (New York Times Book Review)
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Reviewer: KRISTIN F SMITH (see other books I've reviewed) | July 5, 2003 |
| Grandson and great-grandson of presidents, historian, and self-described stable-companion for statesmen, Henry Adams must have been a lovely man to know. He writes with gentle, self-depreciating humor, insight and a genuine interest in the world. He gives us wonderful little vignettes: a rebellious young Henry being taken by the hand and led, firmly but silently, to school by his ex-president grandfather; Henry in England a dozen years later, realizing his British education has prepared him to be an English country gentleman
of the time of Chaucer; an elderly Henry Adams, still in search of accidental education, strolling through Rome and pondering the meaning of history. Many quotations and pithy sayings originate from this book (a friend in power is a friend lost), and it is a pleasure to hear them in context. Adams, a bit player in the major events of his time, assumes his audience knows the details of such matters as the Trent Affair, the Exposition of 1893, and William McKinleys foreign policy. He was interested in theories of history, sometimes wandering off into abtruse trains of thought. But it is worth a little mystification to spend time in the company of such a man. |
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