The Education of Henry Adams

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The Education of Henry Adams is a life memoir that narrates the hardships of Bostonian Henry Adams, in his older years, to arrive to the periods with the birth of the 20th century, so varying from the world of his younger years. It is also a strong critic of 19th century instructive philosophy and tradition. Henry then started secretly published copies of a limited edition issued in his own way. Commercial reproduction of the novel had to anticipate its writer’s 1918 demise, upon which it was awarded the 1919 Pulitzer Prize. The Modern Library ranked it first in a count of the top 100 English-language nonfiction writings of the 20th century.

The Education is much more a documentation of Henry’s contemplation rather than of his acts. It is a longer arbitration on the social, technological, political, and rational transitions that happened during the days of Henry. Henry resolved that his conventional instruction was unsuccessful to assist him when it comes to the speedy alterations, thus, his necessity for self-teaching. The assembling gist of the autobiography is how the effective education and other elements of his childhood was time misused, hence, his hunt for self-teaching through experiences, acquaintances and learning through reading.

Henry Brooks Adams was a historian and member of the Adams political family, his ancestors being the two United States Presidents.

As a youthful Harvard graduate, he became the secretary to his father, Charles Francis Adams, Abraham Lincoln’s ambassador in London, a position that had much impact on the younger lad, both through experience of wartime diplomacy and captivation in English tradition, particularly the writings of John Stuart Mill. After the Civil War in the U. S., he was a noteworthy political journalist who amused America’s prime scholars at his residences in Washington and Boston.
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