Download or read book Dictation from Henry Adams written by Henry Adams and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concerning work at carpentry and mining in California and Oregon; emigration to Seattle in 1853; and election as King County auditor and commissioner.
Download or read book The Letters of Henry Adams written by Henry Adams and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Henry Adams written by Ernest Samuels and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Adams sought, late in life, to thwart prospective biographers by writing his own biography. Published soon after his death in 1918, The Education of Henry Adams was rightly greeted as a masterpiece. Not until thirty years later, with the appearance of the first volume of Ernest Samuelsâe(tm)s biography, did it become apparent how much the story had been colored by Adamsâe(tm)s singular philosophy of history and how great was the disparity between the protagonist of the Education and Adams as he actually was. Upon its completion in 1964, Samuelsâe(tm)s life of Henry Adams was hailed as âeoeone of the great biographical achievements of our timeâe ; its laurels included a Pulitzer Prize.Ernest Samuels has now distilled his ample narrative into a single absorbing volume. We see Adams as a lively undergraduate, in contrast to the jaded young man of the Education; as budding writer, newspaper correspondent, eager participant in political maneuverings in Washington and at the American embassy in London; as teacher at Harvard and editor of the North American Review; settled in Washington, as scholar, biographer, historian, novelist; as insatiable traveler; as friend and adviser to statesmen; as elderly cosmopolite spending half of each year abroad; and always as witty chronicler of the social scene and trenchant commentator on the events of his time. We are drawn into the personal drama of Adamsâe(tm)s middle years: his married life with Clover; the halcyon period in Washington in the early 1880s, catastrophically terminated by Cloverâe(tm)s depression and suicide; his growing passion for Elizabeth Cameron; and his flight to the South Seas. Throughout the book we follow the genesis and progress of his writings, from his muckracking journalism in President Grantâe(tm)s Washington, through the social and political criticism of his novels, his biographies, and his great History, to the classic Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, the daring theories of the Education, and his last essays.Few biographies have so broad a canvasâe"sixty years of American political, social, and intellectual life, from the preâe"Civil War years to the First World War. And few offer so revealing a portrait of a complex human being and an extraordinary career.
Download or read book Henry Adams Selected Letters written by Henry Adams and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ernest Samuels's Pulitzer Prize-winning, multi-volume work on Henry Adams is now a compact, updated, one-volume biography. Henry Adams has been called an indispensable figure in American thought. Although he famously "took his own life" in the autobiographical Education of Henry Adams, his letters--more intimate and unbuttoned, though hardly unselfconscious--are themselves indispensable for an understanding of the man and his times. This selection, the first based on the authoritative 6-volume Letters, represents every major private and public event in Adams's life from 1858 to 1918 and confirms his reputation as one of the greatest letter writers of his time. Adams knew everyone who was anyone and went almost everywhere, and--true to the Adams family tradition--recorded it all. These letters to an array of correspondents from American presidents to Henry James to 5-year-old honorary nieces reveal Adams's passion for politics and disdain for politicians, his snobbish delight in society and sincere affection for friends, his pose of dilettantism and his serious ambitions as writer and historian, his devastation at his wife's suicide and his acquiescence in the role of Elizabeth Cameron's "tame cat," his wicked humor at others' expense and his own reflexive self-depreciation. This volume allows the reader to experience 19th-century America through the eyes of an observer on whom very little was lost, and to make the acquaintance of one of the more interesting personalities in American letters. As Ernest Samuels says in his introduction, "The letters lift the veil of old-age disenchantment that obscures the Education and exhibit Adams as perhaps the most brilliant letter writer of his time. What most engages one in the long course of his correspondence is the tireless range of his intellectual curiosity, his passionate effort to understand the politics, the science, and the human society of the world as it changed around him... It is as literature of a high order that his letters can finally be read."
Download or read book Dictation from William A Adams written by William A. Adams and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each 1 l., except as noted. At Fort Worth, William A. Adams (1853-1902); A.J. Anderson (1855- ), 2 l.; David Boaz (1839- ); W.J. Boaz (1840- ), 4 l.; A.P. Brown (1833- ); William Capps (1858- ); A.M. Carter (1848- ); Martin Casey (1853- ); Zane Cetti (1844- ); H.N. Conner (1841- ); J.F. Ellis (1838- ); W.T. Fakes (1853- ); S.M. Fry (1843- ); Henry M. Furman (1850- ); R.B. Grammer (1861- ); J.Y. Hogsett (1943- ); W.A. Huffman (1846- ); J.B. Littlejohn; Thomas P. Martin (1846- ); S.O. Moodie (1845- ); Thomas D. Ross (1861- ); Walter W. Routh (1855- ); Benjamin H. Shipp (1840- ); William F. Sommerville (1848- ); F.J. Tatum (1847- ); W.H. Taylor (1840- ); John D. Templeton (1845- ); Thomas A. Tidball (1838- ); Horace Lee Washington (1864- ); W.P. Wilson (1839- ); John W. Wray (1853- ).
Download or read book The Letters of Henry Adams 1906 1918 written by Henry Adams and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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-conscious 20-year-old to a self-assured man of the world. In Washington in the chaotic months before Lincoln's inauguration, then in London during the war years and beyond, he serves as secretary to his statesman father and is privy to the inner workings of politics and diplomacy. English social life proves as absorbing as affairs of state. Volume II takes him from his years as a crusading journalist in Grant's Washington, through his marriage to Clover Hooper and his pioneer work as a history professor at Harvard and editor of the North American Review, to his settling in Washington as a professional historian. There he and his wife, described by Henry James as "one of the two most interesting women in America," establish the first intellectual salon of the capital. This halcyon period comes to a catastrophic close with Clover's suicide. Volume III traces his gradual recovery from the shock of his wife's death as he seeks distraction in travel--to Japan, to Cuba, and in 1891-92 to the South Seas--a recovery complicated by his falling dangerously in love with Elizabeth Cameron, beautiful young wife of a leading senator. His South Seas letters to Mrs. Cameron are the most brilliant of all. Fewer than half of Adams's letters have been published even in part, and earlier collections have been marred by expurgations, mistranscriptions, and editorial deletions. In the six volumes of this definitive edition, readers will have access to a major document of the American past.
Download or read book The Political Education of Henry Adams written by Brooks D. Simpson and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lively work of revisionism, Brooks D. Simpson offers a new understanding of Henry Adams's political career, looking beyond the oft-quoted Education of Henry Adams to discover the historian, journalist, and political gadfly as he truly was. In doing so, Simpson challenges portrayals presented by Adams's many biographers and reassesses positions of major historians. He demonstrates the unreliability of The Education as a factual account of post-Civil War American politics, cautions those who represent Adams as a typical political reformer, and discusses why Adams's fervent desire to achieve political success ended in abject failure. Arguing that Adams sought political influence and power, not office, Simpson follows the young republican's struggle to reconcile the dictates of family heritage with his own personal inclinations by carving out a career as a political journalist and behind-the-scenes manipulator of reform politics. But his arrogance and sarcasm, according to Simpson, doomed him to offend the very people he sought to influence and forced him to the margins of the reform movement. Simpson contends that even as Adams wrote about his failure in The Education of Henry Adams, he sought to conceal its true causes behind a facade of witty, derisive remarks about American politics and politicians. In contrast, Simpson places the blame for Adams's failure squarely on Adams himself, concluding that personality rather than politics thwarted his promising career.
Download or read book The Letters of Mrs Henry Adams 1865 1883 written by Marian Adams and published by Boston : Little, Brown. This book was released on 1936 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of fairy tales, fables, and rhymes illustrated by well-known illustrators.
Download or read book The Letters of Henry Adams written by Henry Adams and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letters of Henry Adams written by Henry Adams and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Letters of Henry Adams written by Henry Adams and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Letters of Henry Adams written by Henry Adams and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letters of Henry Adams written by Henry Adams and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Henry Adams Reader written by Henry Adams and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Henry Adams in the Secession Crisis written by Henry Adams and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2012-04-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Secession Winter session of Congress, twenty-two-year-old Henry Adams worked as private secretary to his father, Representative Charles Francis Adams. Henry wrote four accounts of these crucial months in Washington -- an essay, letters to his brother, a segment in his famous autobiography, and twenty-one unsigned letters that Adams composed as a novice correspondent for the Boston Daily Advertiser. Henry Adams in the Secession Crisis presents the Advertiser letters for the first time since their original publication between 1860 and 1861. During the months prior to the Civil War, Adams provided unusual insights into the development of the secession crisis and the attempts of Congress to resolve it peacefully. Since his father and Senator William H. Seward of New York led the efforts of more moderate Republicans to reach a compromise that would at least hold the border slave states in the Union, Adams's letters emphasize and illuminate their efforts and those of their Unionist allies in the upper South. While praising their endeavors -- and particularly the statesmanship of Seward -- Adams attacked southern secessionists and, in several letters, critically analyzed and condemned the famous Crittenden Compromise as a measure impossible for any Republican to support. Fully annotated by historian Mark J. Stegmaier, the Advertiser letters illuminate the politics of the secession crisis while showcasing the youthful work of a man who would become one of the most famous American writers of the late nineteenth century.
