The Education of Henry Adams

Name: The Education of Henry Adams
Author: Henry Adams†
ISBN: 9780191611025

Henry Adams†

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The Education of Henry Adams

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The Education of Henry Adams recounts Henry Adams's 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 voice his deep scepticism about mankind's power to control the direction of history. Written with immense wit and irony, reassembling the past while glimpsing the future, Adams's vision expresses what Henry James declared the `complex fate' to be an American, and remains one of the most compelling works of American autobiography today. The Education of Henry Adams won the Pulitzer Prize in 1919.

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