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The Education of Henry Adams: A Centennial Version (Massachusetts Historical Society)
Henry Adams Manufacturer: Massachusetts Historical Society ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0934909911 |
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Both a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and at the head of the Modern Library's list of the one hundred best English-language nonfiction books of the twentieth century, The Education of Henry Adams has long been revered as a great work of literature. Written by Adams in the third person, the book became known for founding a new genre best described as "an education" -- an account not of life, but of learning. A tireless historian, politician, and traveler, Adams was from first to last a dedicated learner capable of great originality. In this text, Adams uses his background information (such as place of birth, voyage destinations, and alma mater) but little else, placing his protagonist in front of life's various pitfalls with the object of providing those stepping out into the world with the tools they need to handle themselves in the face of adversity. By inventing his own fictional missteps, Adams allows readers to educate themselves on how to approach life's curveballs.Although The Education of Henry Adams has long been considered a classic, until now the only editions available were those from 1907 and 1918. The former, which appeared in Adams's lifetime, was a private printing of only one hundred copies, containing hundreds of printer's errors and editorial inconsistencies. The latter, printed by the Massachusetts Historical Society and Houghton Mifflin Company after Adams's death in March of 1918, amounted to a wholesale modernization of Adams's work, leaving telling defects, including stylistic inconsistencies and incomplete sentences. With The Education of Henry Adams: A Centennial Version, editors Edward Chalfant and Conrad Edick Wright have at long last returned this celebrated book to the author's vision. Combining close attention to the private printing's typesetting and editorial shortcomings with valuable insights into the history of the book and Adams's reasons for writing it, they have also inserted marginal corrections by Adams in his working copies of the 1907 printing. With an introductory note, an invitation to readers, and a postscript, they have both traced the text's own story and offered a compelling interpretation of the author's motives.
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The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography (Oxford World's Classics)
Henry Adams Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0192823698 |
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Many great artists have had at least intermittent doubts about their own abilities. But The Education of Henry Adams is surely one of the few masterpieces to issue directly from a raging inferiority complex. The author, to be sure, had bigger shoes to fill than most of us. Both his grandfather and great-grandfather were U.S. presidents. His father, a relative underachiever, scraped by as a member of Congress and ambassador to the Court of St. James. But young Henry, born in Boston in 1838, was destined for a walk-on role in his nation's history--and seemed alarmingly aware of the fact from the time he was an adolescent.It gets worse. For the author could neither match his exalted ancestors nor dismiss them as dusty relics--he was an Adams, after all, formed from the same 18th-century clay. "The atmosphere of education in which he lived was colonial," we are told,
revolutionary, almost Cromwellian, as though he were steeped, from his greatest grandmother's birth, in the odor of political crime. Resistance to something was the law of New England nature; the boy looked out on the world with the instinct of resistance; for numberless generations his predecessors had viewed the world chiefly as a thing to be reformed, filled with evil forces to be abolished, and they saw no reason to suppose that they had wholly succeeded in the abolition; the duty was unchanged.Here, as always, Adams tells his story in a third-person voice that can seem almost extraplanetary in its detachment. Yet there's also an undercurrent of melancholy and amusement--and wonder at the specific details of what was already a lost world.
Continuing his uphill conquest of the learning curve, Adams attended Harvard, which didn't do much for him. ("The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.") Then, after a beer-and-sausage-scented spell as a graduate student in Berlin, he followed his father to Washington, D.C., in 1860. There he might have remained--bogged down in "the same rude colony ... camped in the same forest, with the same unfinished Greek temples for workrooms, and sloughs for roads"--had not the Civil War sent Adams père et fils to London. Henry sat on the sidelines throughout the conflict, serving as his father's private secretary and anxiously negotiating the minefields of English society. He then returned home and commenced a long career as a journalist, historian, novelist, and peripheral participant in the political process--a kind of mouthpiece for what remained of the New England conscience.
He was not, by any measure but his own, a failure. And the proof of the pudding is The Education of Henry Adams itself, which remains among the oddest and most enlightening books in American literature. It contains thousands of memorable one-liners about politics, morality, culture, and transatlantic relations: "The American mind exasperated the European as a buzz-saw might exasperate a pine forest." There are astonishing glimpses of the high and mighty: "He saw a long, awkward figure; a plain, ploughed face; a mind, absent in part, and in part evidently worried by white kid gloves; features that expressed neither self-satisfaction nor any other familiar Americanism..." (That would be Abraham Lincoln; the "melancholy function" his Inaugural Ball.) But most of all, Adams's book is a brilliant account of how his own sensibility came to be. A literary landmark from the moment it first appeared, the Autobiography confers upon its author precisely that prize he felt had always eluded him: success. --James Marcus
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'Every generalisation that we settled forty years ago, is abandoned' As a journalist, historian and novelist born into a family that included two past presidents of the United States, Henry Adams was constantly focused on the American experiment. An immediate bestseller awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1919, his The Education of Henry Adams (1918) recounts his own and the country's education from 1838, the year of his birth, to 1905, incorporating the Civil War, capitalist expansion and the growth of the United States as a world power. Exploring America as both a success and a failure, contradiction was the very impetus that compelled Adams to write the Education, in which he was also able to voice his deep scepticism about mankind's power to control the direction of history. Written with immense wit and irony, reassembling the past while glimpsing the future, Adams's vision expresses what Henry James declared the `complex fate' to be an American, and remains one of the most compelling works of American autobiography today.Download Description
As a journalist, historian, and novelist born into a distinguished family that included two past presidents of the United States, Henry Adams was inescapably a part of the American experience. The Education of Henry Adams (1918) recounts his own and the country's development from 1838, the year of his birth, to 1905, and became an immediate bestseller, awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1919. The Civil War, economic expansion, and the growth of the United States are among its subjects, as well as his own 'dynamic theory of history'.Customer Reviews:
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THE EDUCATION OF HENRY ADAMS AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY VOLUME 1
Henry , (Intro) Starkey, Marion L. Adams Manufacturer: Time Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000IOPPZ8 |
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The Political Education of Henry Adams
Brooks D. Simpson Manufacturer: University of South Carolina Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1570030537 |
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The Education of Mrs. Henry Adams
Eugenia Kaledin Manufacturer: University of Massachusetts Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0870239139 |
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A lovely, simple biography of a forgotten woman...sad.......2007-05-06
Excellent bibliography.......1997-10-15
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B:1838 the Education of Henry Adams Volume I an Autobiography
Henry Adams Manufacturer: Time Incorporated ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000L1UKLC |
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D:1918 The Education of Henry Adams an Autobiography, Vol. 2
Manufacturer: Time Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000GYLFU4 |
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D:1938 The Education of Henry Adams an Autobiography, Vol. 21
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The Education Of Henry Adams - An Autobiography - The American Heritage Library
Henry; With a new introduction by Brogan, D. W. Adams Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000IY632W |
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The education of Henry Adams : an autobiography
Henry Adams Manufacturer: MODERN LIBRARY ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000VRHJ6U |
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Water's Way: Life along the Chesapeake
Tom Horton Manufacturer: The Johns Hopkins University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0801864267 |
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Those who know and love the Chesapeake will find the bay they treasure on the pages of Water's Way: Life along the Chesapeake. The story of one of North America's most fascinating regions unfolds through the sensitive photographs and prose of two men who have studied the Chesapeake all their lives. Photographer David W. Harp and writer Tom Horton vividly portray how, as Horton writes, "the edges where land and water meet charm us all, from watermen to watercolorists and beachcombers to duck hunters."
Water's Way will guide you to "those rare, hidden nooks of the bay country where nature still appears as glorious and untrammeled as it did a thousand years ago." It will also take you to less hidden, but equally intriguing sites within the Chesapeake's reach as Harp and Horton depict the worlds of both nature and humans.
An intimate knowledge of and an unwavering reverence for the bay pervade Water's Way. Harp and Horton are as attuned to the romance that still clings to the Chesapeake as they are to the realities that inspire and threaten it. In a time when the region faces tremendous changes and challenges, Water's Way is neither strident nor sentimental. Rather, it is suffused with the fundamental respect for the bay which Harp and Horton see as key to its survival.
"Dave Harp's photography and Tom Horton's text are nothing short of inspirational. Through the combination of each man's art, Water's Way communicates the beauty and essence of the Chesapeake like no other book. It conveys the very reasons why I have dedicated my life's work to saving the bay."--William Baker, President, Chesapeake Bay Foundation
"Three forces have been hard at work in the making of this exquisite piece: the gentle and informed eye of Dave's camera, Tom's inspirited love affair with our language, and the mystery they conspire in, creating a vivid picture and genuine portrait of a life that is greater than ourselves."--Tom Wisner, author of Chesapeake Born
"Harp's photographs, gorgeously reproduced here... have, I think, finally surpassed the late Aubrey Bodine's famously romantic shots of the Chesapeake."--John Goodspeed, Easton Star-Democrat
"Tom Horton has a poet's touch and a realist's frankness as he writes of the delicate ecology of this great aquatic system in chapters whose subjects range from the role of marshes to the life of the watermen to the growing pressures of urban development... This book is a singing tribute to the bay."--Islands Magazine
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Turning the Tide: Saving the Chesapeake Bay
Tom Horton Manufacturer: Island Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1559631007 |
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The Chesapeake Bay is one of the most productive and important ecosystems on earth, and as such is a model for other estuaries facing the demands of commerce, tourism, transportation, recreation, and other uses. Turning the Tide presents a comprehensive look at two decades of efforts to save the bay, outlining which methods have worked and which have not.
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Bay Country (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf)
Tom Horton Manufacturer: The Johns Hopkins University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0801835259 |
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"Must reading in a city that reinvented itself by seeking itsharbor roots."--Baltimore Magazine.
"Mr. Horton--a Baltimore journalist who has developed a devoted but hitherto local following--ventures into a small, distinguished circle of nature writers. Fans of Aldo Leopold, John McPhee and Sigurd Olson won't be disappointed. This is not merely a book for those who already know the Chesapeake, although they will be enchanted by Tom Horton's vast knowledge, narrative skills and eye for detail. Like the true bay native he is, Mr. Horton uses the Chesapeake as a limitless resource from which to harvest a great bounty of observations about politics, nature, and human beings."--New York Times Book Review.
"Sailing down the Chesapeake in this book is bracing, for Horton is knowledgeable, thoughtful, full of wonder about the natural world and outspoken... As Smith Islanders might say, it's a `right smart' book."--Washington Post.
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Loving, rounded, view of a complex ecological issue.......1999-02-05
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Chesapeake: Bay of Light: An Exploration of the Chesapeake Bay's Wild and Forgotten Places
Tom Horton Manufacturer: Mountain Trail Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0977793346 |
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Awesome Photography!.......2007-07-09
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Turning the Tide: Saving the Chesapeake Bay
Tom Horton Manufacturer: Island Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1559635495 |
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fascinating, but a little bit rambling.......2004-08-13
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BAY COUNTRY
Tom Horton Manufacturer: Johns Hopkins University ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000JWBCLU |
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Bay Country: Reflections on the Chesapeake
Tom Horton Manufacturer: Ticknor & Fields ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000LLL430 |
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Horton Bay
Fred Koteskey Manufacturer: 1st Books Library ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1585004863 |
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Islands of Moreton Bay
Helen Horton Manufacturer: Boolarong Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 0908175671 |
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Mel Bay Presents Big Walter Horton with Carey Bell
Manufacturer: Mel Bay ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0786623306 |
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