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Author : Melvin E. Lyon
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Symbol and Idea in the Major Works of Henry Adams written by Melvin E. Lyon and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Melvin E. Lyon
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (468 download)
Download or read book Symbol and Idea in Henry Adams written by Melvin E. Lyon and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Melvin E. Lyon
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Symbol and Idea in the Major Works of Henry Adams written by Melvin E. Lyon and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Melvin E. Lyon
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Symbol and Idea in Henry Adams written by Melvin E. Lyon and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Adams
Publisher : Standard Ebooks
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Education of Henry Adams written by Henry Adams and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2022-10-04T17:27:17Z with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most well-known and influential autobiographies ever written, The Education of Henry Adams is told in the third person, as if its author were watching his own life unwind. It begins with his early life in Quincy, the family seat outside of Boston, and soon moves on to primary school, Harvard College, and beyond. He learns about the unpredictability of politics from statesmen and diplomats, and the newest discoveries in technology, science, history, and art from some of the most important thinkers and creators of the day. In essentially every case, Adams claims, his education and upbringing let him down, leaving him in the dark. But as the historian David S. Brown puts it, this is a “charade”: The Education’s “greatest irony is its claim to telling the story of its author’s ignorance, confusion, and misdirection.” Instead, Adams uses its “vigorous prose and confident assertions” to attack “the West after 1400.” For instance, industrialization and technology make Adams wonder “whether the American people knew where they were driving.” And in one famous chapter, “The Dynamo and the Virgin,” he contrasts the rise of electricity and the power it brings with the strength and resilience of religious belief in the Middle Ages. The grandson and great-grandson of two presidents and the son of a politician and diplomat who served under Lincoln as minister to Great Britain, Adams was born into immense privilege, as he knew well: “Probably no child, born in the year, held better cards than he.” After growing up a Boston Brahmin, he worked as a journalist, historian, and professor, moving in early middle age to Washington. Although Adams distributed a privately printed edition of a hundred copies of The Education for friends and family in 1907, it wasn’t published more widely until 1918, the year he died. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1919, and in 1999 a Modern Library panel placed it first on its list of the best nonfiction books published in the twentieth century. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Author : David S. Brown
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982128259
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)
Download or read book The Last American Aristocrat written by David S. Brown and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “marvelous…compelling” (The New York Times Book Review) biography of literary icon Henry Adams—one of America’s most prominent writers and intellectuals, who witnessed and contributed to the United States’ dramatic transition from a colonial society to a modern nation. Henry Adams is perhaps the most eclectic, accomplished, and important American writer of his time. His autobiography and modern classic The Education of Henry Adams was widely considered one of the best English-language nonfiction books of the 20th century. The last member of his distinguished family—after great-grandfather John Adams, and grandfather John Quincy Adams—to gain national attention, he is remembered today as an historian, a political commentator, and a memoirist. Now, historian David Brown sheds light on the brilliant yet under-celebrated life of this major American intellectual. Adams not only lived through the Civil War and the Industrial Revolution but he met Abraham Lincoln, bowed before Queen Victoria, and counted Secretary of State John Hay, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, and President Theodore Roosevelt as friends and neighbors. His observations of these powerful men and their policies in his private letters provide a penetrating assessment of Gilded Age America on the cusp of the modern era. “Thoroughly researched and gracefully written” (The Wall Street Journal), The Last American Aristocrat details Adams’s relationships with his wife (Marian “Clover” Hooper) and, following her suicide, Elizabeth Cameron, the young wife of a senator and part of the famous Sherman clan from Ohio. Henry Adams’s letters—thousands of them—demonstrate his struggles with depression, familial expectations, and reconciling with his unwanted widower’s existence. Offering a fresh window on nineteenth century US history, as well as a more “modern” and “human” Henry Adams than ever before, The Last American Aristocrat is a “standout portrait of the man and his era” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Author : Earl N. Harbert
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Henry Adams written by Earl N. Harbert and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1978 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harry G. Wiebler
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Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (561 download)
Download or read book Henry Adams - Symbol of Our Time: a Study of His Religious Thought written by Harry G. Wiebler and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James P. Young
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700631828
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Henry Adams written by James P. Young and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2021-10-08 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Adams has been a neglected figure in recent years. The Education of Henry Adams is widely accepted as a classic of American letters, but his other work is little read except by specialists. His brilliant journalism is out of print, while Mont Saint Michel and Chartres and the novels Democracy and Esther receive little attention. Even the monumental History of the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, considered by some to be the greatest history written by any American, seems noticed only by scholars of that period. James P. Young, author of the highly regarded Reconsidering American Liberalism, seeks to revive interest in the thought of Adams by extracting core ideas from his writings concerning both American political development and the course of world history and then showing their relevance to the contemporary longing for a democratic revival. In this revisionist study, Young denies that Adams was a reactionary critic of democracy and instead contends that he was an idealistic, though often disappointed, advocate of representative government. Young focuses on Adams's belief that capitalist industrial development during the Gilded Age had debased American ideals and then turns to a careful study of Adams's famous contrast of the unity of medieval society with the fragmentation of modern technological society. Though fully aware of Adams's concerns about technology, Young rejects the idea that Adams was bitterly opposed to twentieth century developments in that field. He shows that though a liberal democrat with inclinations toward reform, Adams is much too sophisticated to be captured by any simple label.
Author : Henry Adams
Publisher : The Floating Press
ISBN 13 : 1775419118
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (754 download)
Download or read book Democracy written by Henry Adams and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published anonymously, it was later revealed that this classic work of political fiction was penned by Henry Brooks Adams, the renowned essayist and journalist best known for the autobiography The Education of Henry Adams. Though fictionalized, Democracy: An American Novel offers a gripping account of the vagaries and vicissitudes of political power that still rings true more than a century after it was first published.
Author : Garry Wills
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618872664
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (726 download)
Download or read book Henry Adams and the Making of America written by Garry Wills and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author Wills showcases Henry Adams little-known but seminal studyof the early United States, and draws from it fresh insights on the paradoxesthat roil America to this day.
Author : Henry Adams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.P/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Education of Henry Adams, and Other Selected Writings written by Henry Adams and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrary to the title, with the exception of one essay, 'The dynamic theory of history,' which is from his autobiographical work, 'The education of Henry Adams', this book principally comprises excerpts from his historical works on the United States in the early 19th century, and his travel/descriptive writings on France.
Author : Jeanette Ehrhart Ingrasci
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Total Pages : 844 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Henry Adams' Concept of the American Character written by Jeanette Ehrhart Ingrasci and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harold Kaplan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351516019
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Henry Adams and the American Naturalist Tradition written by Harold Kaplan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The naturalist tradition in American fiction was a product of the tremendous changes wrought in late nineteenth-century America by the development of science and technology and by the intellectual upheavals associated with the ideas of Darwin, Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud. This book is an account of naturalism, perhaps the strongest and most influential intellectual tradition or, as Harold Kaplan would argue, mythology to affect modern American literature and culture.Kaplan approaches the naturalist writers through a study of Henry Adams. He sees in Adams the paradigmatic intelligence of his time a prophetic mind, though not a seminal one and a man absorbed with the twin notions of power and order. Adams's major work illustrates the joining of a literary imagination and moral temperament with an almost obsessive response to the science, economic life, and politics of his world. Adams's work exemplifies what Kaplan calls the myth of metapolitics a view of human struggle and fate profoundly dominated by naturalist concepts of power.Kaplan then turns to the fascination that power in its various manifestations material, moral, social, political held for writers such as Dreiser, Norris, Crane, and others. Their dramatic plots, characters, and allegorical images are examined in detail. In wider reference, this book should concern those who are interested in problems of modern ethics and politics in the effort to harmonize concepts of value with images of power and natural order.
Author : Henry Adams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book History of the United States of America During the First Administration of Thomas Jefferson written by Henry Adams and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Laurence F. McNamee
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Dissertations in English and American Literature written by Laurence F. McNamee and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1076 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1962 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Part 1, Number 1: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - June)
