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Adams Henry - The Education Of Henry Adams - Paperback
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Description: Every generalisation that we settled forty years ago is abandoned As a journalist historian and novelist born into a family that included two past presidents of the United States Henry Adams was constantly focused on the American experiment. An immediate bestseller awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1919, his The Education of Henry Adams (1918) recounts his own and the country's education from 1838, the year of his birth to 1905, incorporating the Civil War capitalist expansion and the growth of the United States as a world power. Exploring America as both a success and a failure contradiction was the very impetus that compelled Adams to write the Education in which he was also able to voice his deep scepticism about mankind's power to control the direction of history. Written with immense wit and irony reassembling the past while glimpsing the future Adams's vision expresses what Henry James declared the `complex fate to be an American and remains one of the most compelling works of American autobiography today. About THE Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up - to - date bibliographies for further study and much more.
Title: The Education Of Henry Adams
Author(s): Adams Henry, Nadel, Ira (Professor Of English, Professor Of English, University Of British Columbia)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780199552368
Pages: 560 Pages
Publication Date: 8/31/2009
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Category: Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900
Description: Every generalisation that we settled forty years ago is abandoned As a journalist historian and novelist born into a family that included two past presidents of the United States Henry Adams was constantly focused on the American experiment. An immediate bestseller awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1919, his The Education of Henry Adams (1918) recounts his own and the country's education from 1838, the year of his birth to 1905, incorporating the Civil War capitalist expansion and the growth of the United States as a world power. Exploring America as both a success and a failure contradiction was the very impetus that compelled Adams to write the Education in which he was also able to voice his deep scepticism about mankind's power to control the direction of history. Written with immense wit and irony reassembling the past while glimpsing the future Adams's vision expresses what Henry James declared the `complex fate to be an American and remains one of the most compelling works of American autobiography today. About THE Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up - to - date bibliographies for further study and much more.
Title: The Education Of Henry Adams
Author(s): Adams Henry, Nadel, Ira (Professor Of English, Professor Of English, University Of British Columbia)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780199552368
Pages: 560 Pages
Publication Date: 8/31/2009
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Category: Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900
