Henry Adams's History of the United States During the Administrations of Jefferson and Madison, Vol. 2

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by Henry Adams

Penguin USA

Due/Published August 1986, 1436 pages, cloth

ISBN 0940450356

This monumental work, complete in two volumes, culminated Henry Adams' lifelong fascination with the American past. First published in nine volumes from 1889-91, it has been judged one of the greatest historical works in English - and yet has been out of print for several decades.

Adams' History traces the formative period of American nationality from the rise of Thomas Jefferson's Republican party through the war of 1812. Hoping to keep the United States out of Europe's Napoleonic wars, Jefferson's pacificism instead antagonizes both France and England, the two greatest military powers of the world.

 (Library of America)