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The Young Henry Adams

Ernest Samuels

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Description:In this perceptive biography, Mr. Samuels rescues a young man from the injustice of an old one — the young Henry Adams from the ironic hindsights and distortions of that great autobiography, The Education of Henry Adams. He shows Adams as he really was in his formative years — a very human and ardent idealist, forging out of fortune and misfortune the highly efficient tools of a career he had never thought to follow.Mr. Samuels tells the story of Henry Adams from the early years in Quincy and Boston to 1877, when at the age of thirty-nine he resigned his post as professor of history at Harvard and moved to Washington. It is a story of influences, tendencies, and attitudes; of promise and the beginnings of fulfilment. Here is the Adams who, despite his inclination toward a literary life, early laid plans for a career as a politician and statesman, and who became in fact one of the most significant figures in the so-called Reform Movement of the late '60s and early '70s. Here are the years of intellectual awakening in England and the years of brilliant teaching at Harvard, dramatically focused in his editorship of the North American Review. Here, in fact, is the young Henry Adams, testing out in the laboratory of experience all his remarkable capacities.In the course of his development Adams perfected the tools of his craft of historian and social philosopher and sounded the main themes whose elaboration was to occupy the rest of his life. Mr. Samuels' revelation of that development, reconstructed from contemporary materials, constitutes the first objective picture of Henry Adams, and will interest every student of ideas during the crucial Civil War period of American life. Ernest Samuels is Assistant Professor of English at Northwestern University.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Young Henry Adams. To get started finding The Young Henry Adams, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Publisher: Harvard University Press

Release: 1967

ISBN: 0674966309

Description: In this perceptive biography, Mr. Samuels rescues a young man from the injustice of an old one — the young Henry Adams from the ironic hindsights and distortions of that great autobiography, The Education of Henry Adams. He shows Adams as he really was in his formative years — a very human and ardent idealist, forging out of fortune and misfortune the highly efficient tools of a career he had never thought to follow.Mr. Samuels tells the story of Henry Adams from the early years in Quincy and Boston to 1877, when at the age of thirty-nine he resigned his post as professor of history at Harvard and moved to Washington. It is a story of influences, tendencies, and attitudes; of promise and the beginnings of fulfilment. Here is the Adams who, despite his inclination toward a literary life, early laid plans for a career as a politician and statesman, and who became in fact one of the most significant figures in the so-called Reform Movement of the late '60s and early '70s. Here are the years of intellectual awakening in England and the years of brilliant teaching at Harvard, dramatically focused in his editorship of the North American Review. Here, in fact, is the young Henry Adams, testing out in the laboratory of experience all his remarkable capacities.In the course of his development Adams perfected the tools of his craft of historian and social philosopher and sounded the main themes whose elaboration was to occupy the rest of his life. Mr. Samuels' revelation of that development, reconstructed from contemporary materials, constitutes the first objective picture of Henry Adams, and will interest every student of ideas during the crucial Civil War period of American life. Ernest Samuels is Assistant Professor of English at Northwestern University.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Young Henry Adams. To get started finding The Young Henry Adams, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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