The Education of Henry Adams : A Centennial Version (Hardcover)

from wildbill

When the author completed this book he had 100 copies printed and he sent them to his friends. It is a very personal autobiography, there are several mentions of Rousseau's Confessions. It was only after his death that it was published for retail sale, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1918. Adams' l...

from jonbrammer

If you know a lot about the history of the second half of the 19th century, you will probably enjoy this book much more than the casual and the curious, as Adams does a lot of name-dropping without any kind of footnotes or contextual explanation. I was especially interested in Adams' description ...

from tess_schoolmarm

This is an autobiography by the grandson of John Q. Adams. Henry Adams, being of a well to family from Boston grew up with all life's opportunities possible. He graduated from Harvard, yet felt the education there was a joke. He constantly ridiculed the boys from Virginia because they could not d...

from ed.matlack

This book almost defies categorization. It is less an autobiography, and more an accounting of America's transition into modernity as seen through the eyes of an extraordinary man. Adams is unique amongst American intellectuals because of his access to power through his lineage, but what separate...

from whitewavedarling

I'm inclined to consider this book more of a text on history than a standard autobiography, and I have rather mixed feelings about it as a whole. As an experimental autobiography, it's a fascinating study, but it's also a slow and long read. I'm not opposed to long books, but this was a rough rea...