The Education of Henry Adams (Identities and Issues in Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Henry Brooks Adams
- First Published: 1907
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, History
- Subjects: United States or Americans, France or French people, Schools or school life, England or English people, Moral conditions, Grandparents or grandchildren, Money, Presidents, Wealth, Inventions or inventors
- Locales: Boston, MA, Paris, France, Washington, D.C., London, England, Berlin, Germany, Quincy, MA
The Work
The Education of Henry Adams is a study of the forces that shaped the life and mind of Henry Adams as well as many Americans of his generation. Adams describes a general identity crisis in the United States during its transformation from an agricultural society to an urban, industrial world power. Adams poses a question about himself: “What could become of such a child of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when he should wake up to find himself required to play the game of the twentieth?” His autobiography shows how he fared in adjusting to “the...
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