A Henry Adams Reader

Journalist, historian, port, novelist, and philosopher, Henry Adams recorded the emergence of America as a great power in the modern world for readers of two centuries. A descendant of two Presidents, he was profoundly absorbed in the meaning of history, and he related the past and present in dynamic and illuminating ways wile seeking to establish America's place and his own in the civilization of the West.A HENRY ADAMS READER—the only collection of its kind—contains generous selections from all of Adams's various writings, many of which have long been inaccessible. The material has been chronologically arranged ti present clearly the important parallel between Adams' personal development and the development of his writing as each reflected the intellectual, spiritual, and political growth of America as it entered the twentieth century. This rich cross section of Adams' works, selected and introduced by his foremost biographer, presents in one volume the whole range of his achievement.