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The Last American Aristocrat
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 464

The Last American Aristocrat

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-11-24
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  • Publisher: Scribner

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A revelatory biography of literary icon Henry Adams—one of America’s most prominent writers and intellectuals of his era, 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 r...

Adams' Building Construction
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 633

Adams' Building Construction

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-10-06
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Henry Adams' Building Construction was first published in 1906. It was reprinted several times and revised in 1912 with the addition of 24 pages on reinforced concrete. Beautifully illustrated with over 2,300 engravings and twelve tinted plates, it is reprinted here, unabridged, for the first time in nearly one hundred years. Adams' work sits comfortably alongside the other great construction books of the period: "Rivingtons" (also facsimiled by Donhead) and "Mitchell's". The latter two were actually slightly earlier: "Rivingtons" had already reached its fifth edition by 1906, and "Mitchell's" was in its seventh. Nevertheless Adams was hugely popular, selling over 40,000 copies in its first ...

The People Next Door
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 372

The People Next Door

Moving into a new development on the Florida waterfront, Lisa Canfield is stunned to discover that her first husband and his new family are moving in next door, and soon past mistakes, old rivalries, and vicious accusations run rampant, forcing them all to find a way to get along. Reprint.

Henry Adams
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 336

Henry Adams

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2001
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  • Publisher: Unknown

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

Henry Adams and the Making of America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 490

Henry Adams and the Making of America

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.

The Education of Henry Adams
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 552

The Education of Henry Adams

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1999-05-06
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  • Publisher: OUP Oxford

'Every generalisation that we settled forty years ago, is abandoned' As a journalist, historian and novelist born into a family that included two past presidents of the United States, Henry Adams was constantly focused on the American experiment. An immediate bestseller awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1919, his The Education of Henry Adams (1918) recounts his own and the country's education from 1838, the year of his birth, to 1905, incorporating the Civil War, capitalist expansion and the growth of the United States as a world power. Exploring America as both a success and a failure, contradiction was the very impetus that compelled Adams to write the Education, in which he was also able to v...

Democracy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 260

Democracy

THIS BOOK, First published anonymously, March 1880, and soon in various unauthorized editions. It wasn't until the 1925 edition that Adams was listed as author.Henry Adams remarked (ironically as usual), "The wholesale piracy of Democracy was the single real triumph of my life."it was very popular, as readers tried to guess who the author was and who the characters really were.ON the first of December, Mrs. Lee took the train for Washington, and before five o'clock that evening she was entering her newly hired house on Lafayette Square. She shrugged her shoulders with a mingled expression of contempt and grief at the curious barbarism of the curtains and the wall-papers, and her next two day...

Henry Adams. [With Plates, Including Portraits.].
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 246

Henry Adams. [With Plates, Including Portraits.].

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1933
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Letters of Henry Adams
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 780

The Letters of Henry Adams

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Henry Adams and the Southern Question
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 224

Henry Adams and the Southern Question

A lively introduction to a New England observer of southern thought and custom.