{"product_id":"henry-adams-paperback","title":"Henry Adams - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eErnest Samuels\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHenry Adams sought, late in life, to thwart prospective biographers by writing his own biography. Published soon after his death in 1918, \u003ci\u003eThe Education of Henry Adams\u003c\/i\u003e was rightly greeted as a masterpiece. Not until thirty years later, with the appearance of the first volume of Ernest Samuels's biography, did it become apparent how much the story had been colored by Adams's singular philosophy of history and how great was the disparity between the protagonist of the \u003ci\u003eEducation\u003c\/i\u003e and Adams as he actually was. Upon its completion in 1964, Samuels's life of Henry Adams was hailed as \"one of the great biographical achievements of our time\"; its laurels included a Pulitzer Prize. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eErnest Samuels has now distilled his ample narrative into a single absorbing volume. We see Adams as a lively undergraduate, in contrast to the jaded young man of the Education; as budding writer, newspaper correspondent, eager participant in political maneuverings in Washington and at the American embassy in London; as teacher at Harvard and editor of the \u003ci\u003eNorth American Review\u003c\/i\u003e; settled in Washington, as scholar, biographer, historian, novelist; as insatiable traveler; as friend and adviser to statesmen; as elderly cosmopolite spending half of each year abroad; and always as witty chronicler of the social scene and trenchant commentator on the events of his time. We are drawn into the personal drama of Adams's middle years: his married life with Clover; the halcyon period in Washington in the early 1880s, catastrophically terminated by Clover's depression and suicide; his growing passion for Elizabeth Cameron; and his flight to the South Seas. Throughout the book we follow the genesis and progress of his writings, from his muck-raking journalism in President Grant's Washington, through the social and political criticism of his novels, his biographies, and his great \u003ci\u003eHistory\u003c\/i\u003e, to the classic \u003ci\u003eMont Saint Michel and Chartres\u003c\/i\u003e, the daring theories of the \u003ci\u003eEducation\u003c\/i\u003e, and his last essays. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFew biographies have so broad a canvas--sixty years of American political, social, and intellectual life, from the pre-Civil War years to the First World War. And few offer so revealing a portrait of a complex human being and an extraordinary career.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eErnest Samuel's Pulitzer prize-winning, multivolume work on Henry Adams is now a compact, updated, one-volume biography.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 534\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.44 x 9.15 x 6.05 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 1995\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42723426402367,"sku":"9780674387362","price":57.02,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/764f1f3d44e400c8993eb418c3f3701d.webp?v=1765099126","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/henry-adams-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}