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The Education of Henry Adams
Henry Adams
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Paperback. Editor(s): Nadel, Ira B. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGHA; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 132 x 27. Weight in Grams: 376.
'Every generalisation that we settled forty years ago, is abandoned' As a journalist, historian and novelist born into a family that included two past presidents of the United States, Henry Adams was constantly focused on the American experiment. An immediate bestseller awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1919, his The Education of Henry Adams (1918) recounts his own and the country's education from 1838, the year of his birth, to 1905, incorporating the Civil War, capitalist expansion and the growth of the United States as a world power. Exploring America as both a success and a failure, contradiction ... Read more
'Every generalisation that we settled forty years ago, is abandoned' As a journalist, historian and novelist born into a family that included two past presidents of the United States, Henry Adams was constantly focused on the American experiment. An immediate bestseller awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1919, his The Education of Henry Adams (1918) recounts his own and the country's education from 1838, the year of his birth, to 1905, incorporating the Civil War, capitalist expansion and the growth of the United States as a world power. Exploring America as both a success and a failure, contradiction ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
560
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Weight
388g
Number of Pages
560
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199552368
SKU
V9780199552368
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About Henry Adams
Ira Nadel is Professor of English at the University of British Columbia.
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