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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The Education of Henry Adams

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

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One of his greatest feats of artistic legerdemain was to convince the world that he really was the crabbed and crotchety misanthrope portrayed in that greatest American autobiography, The Education of Henry Adams.

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From that point he proposed to fix a position for himself, which he could label: "The Education of Henry Adams: a Study of Twentieth-Century Multiplicity."

From The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

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