![]() Now, a new series, Library of America Paperback Classics, offers attractive and affordable books that bring The Library of America's authoritative texts within easy reach of every reader. The Education of Henry Adams is both a brilliant memoir and a profound meditation on the extraordinary developments in science, politics, religion, and society that so transformed the world as he knew it.įor almost thirty years, The Library of America has presented America's best and most significant writing in acclaimed hardcover editions. Though a man of the modern world, Adams remained in temperament a child of the 18th century, his political ideals shaped by his presidential ancestors, great-grandfather John Adams and grandfather John Quincy Adams. Henry Adams was one of the most powerful and original minds to confront the American scene from the Civil War to World War I. It is the pleasure of seeing revealed the humanity so often concealed in history." -Alfred Kazin the pleasure of seeing history come alive, of seeing it move, of seeing behind history to the actions and actors. ![]() "The pleasure of reading the Education is. ![]()
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