Authors:Henry Adams,  Henry Cabot Lodge,
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Keywords: autobiography, adams, henry, education
Number of Pages: 532
Published: 2003-06-05
List price: $40.95
ISBN-10: 0766161447
ISBN-13: 9780766161443

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 fr

Authors:Henry Adams, Brooks Adams,
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Keywords: dogma, democratic, degradation
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2004-05-30
List price: $30.95
ISBN-10: 1417915986
ISBN-13: 9781417915989

1920. This new book is a record of the gathering of data in the department of human government by three generations of America’s most distinguished thinkers, whose lives cover almost the entire period of the American experiment. Here are included three brilliant essays-expressing and emphasizing the creed which has become the heritage of Henry Adams. The result may be summed up in this remarkable conclusion: Vox populi non est vox Dei. As in physics, so also in mind and administration. The theory of averages leads ever to a lower level. The perfect plebiscite, the democratic ideal, is th

Author: Henry Adams
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: autobiography, adams, henry, education
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 2000-04-27
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0618056661
ISBN-13: 9780618056668

Few books have so firmly established their place in American literature as The Education of Henry Adams. When it was first published in 1918, it became an instant bestseller and went on to win the Pulitzer Prize. More than eighty years later, in an age of self-reflection and exhaustive memoirs, The Education still stands as perhaps the greatest American autobiography. The son of a diplomat, the grandson and great-grandson of two American presidents, a man of extraordinary gifts and learning in his own right, Henry Adams recounts his life from his birth in 1838 and upbringing as a Boston Brahm

Author: Henry Adams
Publisher: Dover Publications
Keywords: value, editions, dover, adams, henry, education
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2002-12-03
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 048642443X
ISBN-13: 9780486424439

A scion of the famous Adams family of American statesmen, historian Henry Adams was more drawn to scholarship than to politics. His well-known autobiographical work--privately printed in 1907 and published posthumously in 1918--reflects his constant search for order and unity in a world he regarded as teetering on the brink of self-destruction. Adams subtitled his work "A Study of 20th-Century Multiplicity" and cast himself as a modern everyman, seeking coherence in a fragmented universe and concluding that his education was inadequate for the demands of modern society. This Dover reprint will

Author: Henry Adams
Publisher: NCUP
Keywords: democracy
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 1990-01-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 080840430X
ISBN-13: 9780808404309

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Author: Henry C. Adams
Publisher: BiblioBazaar
Keywords: towns, coast, sea, sewerage
Number of Pages: 122
Published: 2006-07-12
List price: $18.99
ISBN-10: 1426402651
ISBN-13: 9781426402654

"These notes are internal primarily for those engineers who, having a general knowledge of sewerage, are called upon to prepare a scheme for a sea coast town, or are desirous of being able to meet such a call when made."

Author: Henry Adams
Publisher: Applewood Books
Keywords: america, gardening, lilies
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2008-12-16
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1429014202
ISBN-13: 9781429014205

"After praising the virtues and beauty of the lily, Henry Adams’s 1913 work provides a short history and guide to the cultivation of the lily in hopes of inspiring more gardeners to grow this flower."