The education of Henry Adams /

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Author / Creator:Adams, Henry, 1838-1918.
Edition:Oxford World Classics pbk.
Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Description:1 online resource (xlv, 505 pages).
Language:English
Series:Oxford world's classics
Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11099615
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Other authors / contributors:Nadel, Ira Bruce.
ISBN:9780191610486
0191610488
0192823698
9780192823694
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Other form:Print version: Adams, Henry, 1838-1918. Education of Henry Adams. Oxford World Classics pbk. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999 0192823698
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Summary:'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 Americaas 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 thefuture, 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.ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xlv, 505 pages).
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780191610486
0191610488
0192823698
9780192823694