Education of Henry Adams
Henry Brooks Adams • 2017 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Author
- Henry Brooks Adams
- First published
- 2017
- Publisher
- CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Genres
- Biography
- Subjects
- Adams, henry, 1838-1918 · Historians, united states · Historians, biography
- ISBN
- 9781724781277
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The Education of Henry Adams was originally written by Henry Brooks Adams and privately printed in 1907. It emerged from his desire to chronicle his own upbringing and formal schooling as a lens through which to examine the rapid modernization, scientific advancement, and political shifts of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Adams famously wrote the work in the third person, adopting a detached, ironic tone as he navigated the challenges of a traditional education failing to prepare a man for a chaotic, industrializing world.
The 2017 CreateSpace edition is a modern print-on-demand reproduction of this seminal autobiographical work. While the original manuscript saw a posthumous public release in 1918 to immediate critical acclaim, winning the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1919, this specific edition serves to keep the text accessible to contemporary readers. It reflects the enduring legacy of Adams's prose, which remains a cornerstone of American intellectual history and a frequent subject of study for its poignant reflections on the disillusionment of the post-Civil War generation.
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