This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.
The Education of Henry Adams, written by America’s greatest historian and heir to America’s first political family, was greeted on its posthumous release as the finest of American autobiographies. For a century it has been routinely characterized as one of world literature’s extraordinary life narratives. However,
The Education isn’t truly a work of autobiography. It is a meditation on a life formed by a family tradition that wraps itself around a cultural critique of the age, and around speculations on a philosophy of history.
عن المؤلف
Henry Adams, born in 1838, was the fourth child of Charles Francis Adams and Abigail Brooks Adams, a union that joined the Adams’ fortunes to a family then reputed to be the wealthiest in Boston. This Adams would become not only the family’s standout literary talent, but also a major American writer.
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