{"product_id":"henry-adams-9780674387577","title":"Henry Adams","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis selection, the first based on the authoritative six-volume Letters, represents every major private and public event in Adams's life from 1858 to 1918 and confirms his reputation as one of the greatest letter writers of his time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eErnest Samuels has performed a valuable service in making Adams’s letters accessible for the first time to a large audience. For these letters are compelling and important… The proximity and sensitivity to power that gave many of Adams’s letters lasting interest and credibility also set a more personally interested agenda for his correspondence. * The Nation *\u003cbr\u003eA superbly edited one-volume collection containing much of Adams’s most significant and illustrative correspondence. * Choice *\u003cbr\u003eHenry Adams is a rare bird in American letters: rich, autonomous, and socially unassailable; descendant of Presidents, secure within the genteel Establishment, yet holding himself aloof from it; historian of his country, toward which he felt a proprietary concern; and, by his own reckoning, ‘a failure in politics and literature, in society and in solitude, in hatred and in love’ …Besides enriching the stock of informal American literature—for embedded in them are novelistic episodes and passages of power and beauty—the letters constitute a kind of epistolary autobiography that complements Adams’s more reticent memoir. -- Daniel Aaron\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbbreviations    APPRENTICE YEARS  1858-1868   THE CONQUEST OF A REPUTATION  1868-1885   IN SEARCH OF NIRVANA  1886-1892   A FAUSTIAN TRAVELER  1891-1899   CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN ANARCHIST  1899-1905  THE BENEVOLENT SAGE  1906-1918    Genealogy of the Adams Family   Chronology   Acknowledgments   Index","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403588804951,"sku":"9780674387577","price":60.31,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674387577.jpg?v=1730483911","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/henry-adams-9780674387577","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}