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With this volume, covering the years 1890-1918, Ernest Samuels completes his definitive study of Henry Adams which is at once biography, literary history, and criticism. Written on the same comprehensive scale as its predecessors, the book utilizes an immense wealth of unpublished manuscript material, much of it hitherto restricted or inaccessible, or in some cases expurgated or suppressed. Of all these extremely useful new sources, probably the most important papers from the biographical point of view are the brilliant and romantic letters Henry Adams wrote to Elizabeth Cameron in 1890-91. As he has done from the beginning, Mr. Samuels makes relatively little use of The Education of Henry Adams , preferring to take Adams out of the half-lights and self-deprecations of his own great book, to show him in the round, to disencumber his career from the formulas of his various theories of history, and to tell the full story of his behind-the-scenes participation in palace politics he method is particularly rewarding and important here because the narrative of the Education ends in 1905, and nearly half of the book deals with the remaining thirteen years of Adams's life. To many reade

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Author

Ernest Samuels

Publisher

Belknap Press Of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.

Published

1948

Language

EN

ISBN

9780674432512

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, History, Biography

Updated

2026-03-25