The Education of Henry Adams

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by Henry Adams,

Introduction by Donald Hall

Houghton Mifflin

Due/Published April 2000, 528 pages, paper

ISBN 0618056661

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'.