The education of Henry Adams : an autobiography.

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, c1971.Description: xxiv, 517 pages ; 21 cmISBN:

0395083524

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

E 175.5 .A33 1971

Contents:

I. Quincy (1838-1848).--II. Boston (1848-1854).--III. Washington (1850-1854).--IV. Harvard College (1854-1858).--V. Berlin (1854-1859).--VI. Rome (1859-1860).--VII. Treason (1860-1831).

Summary: Few works have so firmly established their position in American literature as The education of Henry Adams. As a man of extraordinary gifts and learning and a member of one of the greatest American families, Henry Adams wrote an insightful exploration of himself and the tumultuous age in which he lived. In the words of Van Wyck Brooks, he "revealed a phase of American history with unparalleled boldness and truth." In spite of his illustrious background and Harvard schooling, Henry Adams asserts that his conventional education was defective because it did not prepare him to live in a world transformed by the new science and the new technology. His intention was to write a kind of handbook to prepare "young men, in universities and elsewhere, to be men of the world, equipped for any emergency." The result is what many consider to be one of the finest autobiographies ever written.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Reference	NU BALIWAG	NU BALIWAG	Reference	Reference	REF E 175.5 .A33 1971 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	c.1	Available		NUBUL000002250

Includes index.

I. Quincy (1838-1848).--II. Boston (1848-1854).--III. Washington (1850-1854).--IV. Harvard College (1854-1858).--V. Berlin (1854-1859).--VI. Rome (1859-1860).--VII. Treason (1860-1831).

Few works have so firmly established their position in American literature as The education of Henry Adams. As a man of extraordinary gifts and learning and a member of one of the greatest American families, Henry Adams wrote an insightful exploration of himself and the tumultuous age in which he lived. In the words of Van Wyck Brooks, he "revealed a phase of American history with unparalleled boldness and truth." In spite of his illustrious background and Harvard schooling, Henry Adams asserts that his conventional education was defective because it did not prepare him to live in a world transformed by the new science and the new technology. His intention was to write a kind of handbook to prepare "young men, in universities and elsewhere, to be men of the world, equipped for any emergency." The result is what many consider to be one of the finest autobiographies ever written.

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