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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 America's dramatic transition from "colonial" to "modern."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 book of the twentieth century. The last member of his family, after great-grandfather John Adams, and grandfather John Quincy Adams, he gained national attention as an historian, a political commentator, and a memoirist.Now, historian David Brown sheds light on the brilliant yet under-celebrated life of this major American intellectual. Adams not only lived through the Civil War and the Industrial Revolution but he met Abraham Lincoln, bowed before Queen Victoria, and counted powerful figures, including Secretary...

Author

David S. Brown

Publisher

Scribner

Published

2020

Language

EN