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Henry Adams and the making of America by Garry Wills [Wills, Garry] is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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One of our greatest historians offers a surprising new view of the greatest historian of the nineteenth century, Henry Adams. Wills showcases Henry Adams's little-known but seminal study of the early United States and elicits from it fresh insights on the paradoxes that roil America to this day. Adams drew on his own southern fixation, his extensive foreign travel, his political service in Lincoln's White House, and much more to invent the study of history as we know it. His nine-volume chronicle of America from 1800 to 1816 established new standards for employing archival sources, firsthand reportage, eyewitness accounts, and other techniques that have become the essence of modern history. Adams's innovations went beyond the technical; he posited an essentially ironic view of the legacy of Jefferson and Madison. As is well known, they strove to shield the young country from "foreign entanglements," a standing army, a central bank, and a federal bureaucracy, among other hallmarks of "big government." Yet by the end of their tenures they had permanently entrenched all of these things in American society. This is the "American paradox" that defines us today: the idealized desire for

Who reads Henry Adams and the making of America?

Author

Garry Wills [Wills, Garry]

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780618134304

Category

history

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Memoir, Fiction

Rating

3.82 / 5 (80 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14