Adams, Henry Brooks
Adams, Henry Brooks ( 1838 – 1918 ),American man of letters, and grandson and great-grandson of presidents of the United States. He was born and brought up in Boston and educated at Harvard, and during the Civil War was in England, where his father Charles Francis Adams ( 1807 – 86 ) was a minister. On his return he taught history at Harvard, edited the North American Review , and, after moving to Washington, published two novels, Democracy ( 1880 , anonymously) and Esther ( 1884 , as ‘Frances Snow Compton’). His ambitious History of the United States during the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison appeared in nine volumes, 1889 – 91 . He subsequently travelled widely in Europe; his Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres ( 1904 ) is an interpretation of the spiritual unity of the 13th-cent. mind, which led to his autobiography, The Education of Henry Adams...
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