The education of Henry Adams;: an autobiography.
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Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, [1918?].
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x, 519, [1] pages 25 cm.
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Many great artists have had at least intermittent doubts about their own abilities. But The Education of Henry Adams is surely one of the few masterpieces to issue directly from a raging inferiority complex. The author, to be sure, had bigger shoes to fill than most of us. Both his grandfather and great-grandfather were U.S. presidents. His father, a relative underachiever, scraped by as a member of Congress and ambassador to the Court of St. James. But young Henry, born in Boston in 1838, was destined for a walk-on role in his nation's history-and seemed alarmingly aware of the fact from the time he was an adolescent. For the author could neither match his exalted ancestors nor dismiss them as dusty relics-he was an Adams, after all, formed from the same 18th-century clay. Henry sat on the sidelines throughout the conflict of the Civil War, serving as his father's private secretary and anxiously negotiating the minefields of English society. He then returned home and commenced a long career as a journalist, historian, novelist, and peripheral participant in the political process-a kind of mouthpiece for what remained of the New England conscience. He was not, by any measure but his own, a failure. And the proof of the pudding is The Education of Henry Adams itself, which remains among the oddest and most enlightening books in American literature. Adams's book is a brilliant account of how his own sensibility came to be. A literary landmark from the moment it first appeared, the Autobiography confers upon its author precisely that prize he felt had always eluded him: success.
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"This volume, written in 1905, as a sequel to the same author's 'Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres,' was privately printed ... in 1906 ... The Massachusetts historical society now publishes the 'Education' as it was printed in 1907, with only such marginal corrections as the author made."--Editor's pref., signed: Henry Cabot Lodge.
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APA Citation (style guide)
Adams, H., & Lodge, H. C. (1918). The education of Henry Adams: an autobiography. Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Adams, Henry, 1838-1918 and Henry Cabot Lodge. 1918. The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography. Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Adams, Henry, 1838-1918 and Henry Cabot Lodge, The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography. Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918.
MLA Citation (style guide)Adams, Henry and Henry Cabot Lodge. The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography. Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918.
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