The Letters of Henry Adams

By Henry Adams, J. C. Levenson (editor), Ernest Samuels (editor) , Charles Vandersee (editor) , Viola Hopkins Winner (editor)

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Henry Adams's letters are one of the vital chronicles of the life of the mind in America. A perceptive analyst of people, events, and ideas, Adams recorded, with brilliance and wit, sixty years of enormous change at home and abroad.

Volume I shows him growing from a high-spirited but self-consciousā€¦

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One of the most prolific correspondents in American history, Adams keen eye and biting wit is the perfect companion for anyone who wants to gain a picture of the themes, events, and personalities that dominated the Gilded Age.

The grandson, and great-grandson of two American presidents, Adams was a symbol of the WASP elite whose dominance in American society was beginning to wane. A former journalist, professor at Harvard, mentor to Henry Cabot Lodge and friend of Theodore Roosevelt, Adams was closely associated with the whoā€™s who of politics, art, and society.

While Adams may have realized he was writingā€¦

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