The Education of Henry Adams

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1. The autobiography of a member of the Adams family of New England (see John Adams and John Quincy Adams). Adams mingles a partial story of his life with an indictment of his education and reflections on the fundamental ideas of modern times and of the Middle Ages.

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The autobiography was privately published in 1907 and later published in 1918, after Adams's death.

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I suggest touring the first with a copy of The Education of Henry Adams in hand, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on your must-see list, and visions of glass flowers dancing in your head.

From Slate • Jan. 2, 2014

Although Franz Mehring writes in detail of Marx's opinions on the U. S. Civil War, readers who know The Education of Henry Adams may be disappointed with his account.

From Time Magazine Archive

So it may still seem to disenchanted literature students who find their way to graduation blocked by The Education of Henry Adams and Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres.

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Mr. Adams's uncles were Charles Francis Jr., colonel of a Negro cavalry regiment in the Civil War and onetime president of the Union Pacific R. R., and Henry, autobiographer of The Education of Henry Adams.

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The Education of Henry Adams," that "London was altogether beside itself on one point, in especial; it created a nightmare of its own, and gave it the shape of Abraham Lincoln.

From The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe by Various