Henry Adams
- Authors
- Samuels, Ernest
- Publisher
- Belknap Press
- Tags
- henry , biography , historians , autobiography , biography & autobiography , general , literary , united states historiography adams , 1838-1918 , usa , autobiography as topic , english , historical - general , historiens , history , historiography , adams , biography: general
- ISBN
- 9780674387362
- Date
- 1964-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.91 MB
- Lang
- en
Abridgement of the author's 3 v. biographical and critical study of Adams, published between 1948 and 1964;Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-487) and index;Brahmin Pattern -- The grand tour -- Witness to history -- A golden time -- A young reformer of thirty -- Harvard College once more -- In quest of historical principles -- The return of the native -- Literary debut -- European orbit -- The golden age of Lafayette Square -- Portraits past and present -- The forsaken garden -- The seasons of nirvana -- History and the posthumous life -- The paradoxes of Polynesia -- Between worlds -- Journey into chaos -- Brothers in prophecy -- Behind the scenes -- New England gothic -- Thirteenth-century unity -- The shield of protection -- Schoolboy at seventy -- Teachers of teachers -- The benevolent sage -- The abandoning universe
Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-487) and index
Ernest Samuel's Pulitzer prize-winning, multivolume work on Henry Adams is now a compact, updated, one-volume biography.