The Education of Henry Adams - Softcover

Adams, Henry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1604596341 ISBN 13: 9781604596342

Publisher: Wilder Publications, 2009

Synopsis

The Education of Henry Adams is the Pulitzer Prize winning autobiography of Henry Adams. The Education is much more a record of Adams's introspection than of his deeds. It is an extended meditation on the social, technological, political, and intellectual changes that occurred over Adams's lifetime. Adams concluded that his traditional education at Harvard failed to help him come to terms with the rapid changes he saw in his lifetime; hence his need for self-education. Adams repeatedly laments that his formal education, grounded in the classics, history, and literature, as was then the fashion, did not give him the scientific and mathematical knowledge needed to grasp the scientific breakthroughs of the 1890s and 1900s. The organizing thread of the book is how the "proper" schooling and other aspects of his youth, was time wasted; thus his search for self-education through experiences, friendships, and reading. Many consider this the best autobiography ever written.

About this title

Review:

"The pleasure of reading The EDUCATION is the pleasure of seeing history come alive." -- Alfred Kazin

About the Author:

Henry Adams (1838-1918) was author of "The Education of Henry Adams," two novels, and numerous hooks and articles.

Henry Cabot Lodge (1850 1924) was a Republican senator and historian from Massachusetts. He is best known for his positions on foreign policy, especially his battle with President Woodrow Wilson in 1919 over the Treaty of Versailles. He graduated from Harvard College and was the first student to graduate Harvard University with a PhD in political science. Lodge was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1878 and served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1880 1881; he also represented his home state in the United States House of Representatives from 1887 1893 and in the Senate from 1893 1924. He is the author of a number of historical works, including "Alexander Hamilton", "Hero Tales from American History", "Theodore Roosevelt", and many others.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wilder Publications
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1604596341
• ISBN 13: 9781604596342
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 324