The Letters of Henry Adams

by Henry Adams

Book Overview

Henry Adams's letters are one of the vital chronicles of the life of the mind in America. A perceptive analyst of people, events, and ideas, Adams recorded, with brilliance and wit, sixty years of enormous change at home and abroad.

Volume I shows him growing from a high-spirited but self-conscious 20-year-old to a self-assured man of the world. In Washington in the chaotic months before Lincoln's inauguration, then in London during the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674526856
• ISBN13: 9780674526853
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 2016 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 4.3" x 6.8" x 10.1"