The Education of Henry Adams (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Henry Brooks Adams
- First Published: 1907
- Time of Work: 1838–1905
- Setting: Quincy and Boston, Massachusetts; Washington, D.C.; London; Berlin; and Paris
- Principal Characters: Henry Adams, Charles Francis Adams, Charles Sumner, William H. Seward, Clarence King, John Hay
- 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
Form and Content
In his late sixties, the American historian Henry Brooks Adams wrote The Education of Henry Adams as an exploration of the meaning of his own life. Adams was the great-grandson of one U.S. president (John Adams) and the grandson of another (John Quincy Adams). His father, Charles Francis Adams, was an important figure in antislavery politics and an early leader of the Republican Party in the years before the Civil War. As a child, Adams tells the reader, he simply assumed that one day he himself would be president of the United States. Yet the family...
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