The Education of Henry Adams (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Henry Brooks Adams
- First Published: 1907
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Setting: United States, England, and France
- Principal Characters: Henry Adams, Charles Francis Adams, John Hay, Clarence King
- 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 Story:
Henry Brooks Adams was born of the union of two illustrious Massachusetts families, the Brookses and the Adamses, and he was, in addition, the grandson and the great-grandson of presidents. His wealth and social position should have put him among the leaders of his generation. Although the period of mechanical invention had begun in 1838, Henry Adams was raised in a colonial atmosphere. He remembered that his first serious encounter with his grandfather, John Quincy Adams, occurred when he refused to go to school and that gentleman led him there by the hand. For...
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