Description
2016 Reprint of 1918 Edition. “The Education of Henry Adams” records the struggle of Bostonian Henry Adams (1838-1918), in his later years, to come to terms with the dawning 20th century, so different from the world of his youth. It is also a sharp critique of 19th century educational theory and practice. In 1907, Adams began privately circulating copies of a limited edition printed at his own expense. Commercial publication had to await its author’s 1918 death, whereupon it won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize. The Modern Library placed it first in a list of the top 100 English-language nonfiction books of the twentieth century. Contents: Editor’s preface / Henry Cabot Lodge — Quincy (1838-1848) — Boston (1848-1854) — Washington (1850-1854) — Harvard College (1854-1858) — Berlin (1858-1859) — Rome (1859-1860) — Treason (1860-1861) — Diplomacy (1861) — Foes or friends (1862) — Political morality (1862) — The battle of the rams (1863) — Eccentricity (1863) — The perfection of human society (1864) — Dilettantism (1865-1866) — Darwinism (1867-1868) — The press (1868) — President Grant (1869) — Free fight (1869-1870) — Chaos (1870) — Failure (1871) — Twenty years after (1892) — Chicago (1893) — Silence (1894-1898) — Indian summer (1898-1899) — The dynamo and the virgin (1900) — Twilight (1901) — Teufelsdrckh (1901) — The height of knowledge (1902) — The abyss of ignorance (1902) — Vis inertiae (1903) — The grammar of science (1903) — Vis nova (1903-1904) — A dynamic theory of history (1904) — A law of acceleration (1904) — Nunc age (1905).
