The Education of Henry Adams: Webster's Hungarian Thesaurus Edition (Modern Library) (Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Books)

by Henry Adams

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Adams was a historian, an intellectual born into the fourth generation of a family of distinguished politicians, diplomats and statesmen that included two presidents of the United States. His "Education" is thus steeped in history, that of his family and of the American politics, culture and identity they helped to shape. At the same time he elaborates his own 'dynamic theory of history' as the product of what he calls the conflict between the Virgin and the Dynamo: 'All the steam in the world could not, like the Virgin, build Chartre's.'
  • ISBN10 661155579X
  • ISBN13 9786611555795
  • Publish Date 1 January 2008 (first published 1 January 1918)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 3 March 2011
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Icon Group
  • Edition annotated edition
  • Format eBook
  • Language English