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

In his autobiography, The Education of Henry Adams, the author somewhat sourly recalls teaching at Harvard in the 1870s.

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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.

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Readers of one masterpiece, The Education of Henry Adams, know how enigmatic he seems in his autobiography.

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I would suggest as a book, from which a pretty little scenario might be made, "The Education of Henry Adams."

From Of All Things by Benchley, Robert C.