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Henry Adams (born February 16, 1838, Boston—died March 27, 1918, Washington, D.C.) was a historian, man of letters, and author of one of the outstanding autobiographies of Western literature, The Education of Henry Adams.
Henry Adams (February 16, 1838–March 27, 1918) graduated from Harvard in 1858, then studied law in Germany. During the Civil War he served as secretary to the ambassador in London (his father).
Unlike his famous ancestors, Henry Adams was never in the forefront of U.S. politics and diplomacy. His life’s work and contributions to his nation involved analyzing and commenting on American life and thought.
Henry Adams, (born Feb. 16, 1838, Boston, Mass., U.S.—died March 27, 1918, Washington, D.C.), U.S. historian and man of letters. A product of Boston’s elite Brahmin class and a descendant of two presidents, he was infused with disgust for American politics of his time.
Mar 27, 2011 · The Education of Henry Adams, autobiographical work by Henry Adams that was privately printed in 1906 and published in 1918. Considered to be one of the most distinguished examples of the genre, the Education combines autobiography, bildungsroman, and critical evaluation of an age.
Mar 21, 2022 · Henry Adams (b. 1838–d. 1918) was born in Boston into the most prominent political family in the United States. Grandson and great-grandson of presidents, he seemed destined to carry on his family’s tradition of public service.
Dec 1, 2017 · Henry Adams: History of the United States During the Administrations o…. LOA N°32. A champion of America’s great writers and timeless works, Library of America guides readers in finding and exploring the exceptional writing that reflects the nation’s history and culture.
Henry Adams is a rare bird in American letters: rich, autonomous, and socially unassailable; descendant of Presidents, secure within the genteel Establishment, yet holding himself aloof from it; historian of his country, toward which he felt a proprietary concern; and, by his own reckoning, ‘a failure in politics and literature, in society ...
Henry Adams. Ernest Samuels. Paperback. ISBN 9780674387362. Publication date: 08/13/1995. 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.
Noted in his own time for his essays, biographies, novels, and histories, today Adams owes his reputation primarily to The Education of Henry Adams, his unique autobiographical study of the forces that shaped his own life and nineteenth-century America more generally.
