{"product_id":"the-education-of-henry-adams-isbn-9781598530605","title":"The Education of Henry Adams","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"The pleasure of reading the \u003ci\u003eEducation\u003c\/i\u003e is . . . the pleasure of seeing history come alive, of seeing it move, of seeing behind history to the actions and actors. It is the pleasure of seeing revealed the humanity so often concealed in history.\" -Alfred Kazin \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Henry Adams was one of the most powerful and original minds to confront the American scene from the Civil War to World War I. Though a man of the modern world, Adams remained in temperament a child of the 18th century, his political ideals shaped by his presidential ancestors, great-grandfather John Adams and grandfather John Quincy Adams. \u003ci\u003eThe Education of Henry Adams\u003c\/i\u003e is both a brilliant memoir and a profound meditation on the extraordinary developments in science, politics, religion, and society that so transformed the world as he knew it. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e For almost thirty years, The Library of America has presented America's best and most significant writing in acclaimed hardcover editions. Now, a new series, Library of America Paperback Classics, offers attractive and affordable books that bring The Library of America's authoritative texts within easy reach of every reader. Each book features an introductory essay by one of a leading writer, as well as a detailed chronology of the author's life and career, an essay on the choice and history of the text, and notes. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The contents of this Paperback Classic are drawn from \u003ci\u003eHenry Adams: Novels, Mont Saint Michel, The Education,\u003c\/i\u003e volume number 14 in the Library of America series. That volume is joined in the series by two companion volumes, numbers 31 and 32, \u003ci\u003eHenry Adams: History of the United States During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHenry Adams: History of the United States During the Administrations of James Madison.\u003c\/i\u003eBorn in 1838 into one of the oldest and most distinguished families in Boston, a family which had produced two American presidents, \u003cb\u003eHenry Adams\u003c\/b\u003e had the opportunity to pursue a wide-ranging variety of intellectual interests during the course of his life.  Functioning both in the world of practical men and afffairs (as a journalist and an assistant to his father, who was an American diplomat in Washinton and London), and in the world of ideas (as a prolific writer, the editor of the prestigious \u003cb\u003eNorth American Review\u003c\/b\u003e, and a professor of medieval, european, and American history at Harvard), Adams was one of the few men of his era who attempted to understand art, thought, culture, and history as one complex force field of interacting energies.  His two masterworks in this dazzling effort are \u003cb\u003eMont Saint Michel and Chartres\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eThe Education of Henry Adams\u003c\/b\u003e, published one after the other in 1904 and 1907.  Taken together they may be read as Adams' spiritual autobiography—two monumental volumes in which he attempts to bring together into a vast synthesis all of his knowledge of politics, economics, psychology, science, philosophy, art, and literature in order to attempt to understand the individual's place in history and society.  They constitute one of the greatest historical and philosophical meditations on the human condition in all of literature.","brand":"Library of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302568448229,"sku":"NP9781598530605","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781598530605.jpg?v=1767739134","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-education-of-henry-adams-isbn-9781598530605","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}