The Education of Henry Adams (Oxford World's Classics)

出版者:Oxford University Press, USA

作者:Henry Adams

页数:0

出版时间:1999-08-12

价格:USD 12.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780192823694

图书标签:传记美国历史英语文学爱清华大学图书馆政治学只要不停提醒自己总会读完的书

As a journalist, historian, and novelist born into a family that included two past Presidents, Henry Adams was forever focused on the experiences and expectations unique to America. A prompt bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winner, The Education of Henry Adams (1918) recounts his own and his

country's development from 1838--the year Adams was born--up to 1905, thus incorporating the Civil War, unprecedented capitalist expansion, and the growth of the United States as a world power. Adams considered the nation both a success and a failure, and this paradox was the very impetus that

compelled him to set down his Education--in the pages of which he also voiced a deep skepticism about mankind's ability to control the direction of history. Written with immense wit and irony, reassembling the past while glimpsing at the future, this book wholly expresses what Henry James declared

the "complex fate" of being an American. Adams's thoroughly documented vision remains one of the most absorbing American autobiographies ever written.

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