Adams, Brooks - Further Reading
FURTHER READING
Biography
Beringause, Arthur F. Brooks Adams: A Biography. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955, 404 pp.
Defends Adams as a philosophical progenitor of Oswald Spengler, author of The Decline of Western Civilization, and credits Adams as the first historian to apply a scientific formula to the explanation of history.
Nagle, Paul C. Descent from Glory: Four Generations of the John Adams Family. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983, 400 p.
Examines the dynamics of the Adams's dynasty, and dedicates a chapter to Brooks Adams.
Criticism
Aaron, Daniel. "Theodore Roosevelt and Brooks Adams: Pseudo-Progressives." In Men of Good Hope: A Story of American Progressives, pp. 245-80. New York: Oxford University Press, 1951.
Positions Adams and Roosevelt at the forefront of the American Progressive Movement, and enumerates varying critical assessments of Adams's career. The essay also...
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