The Education of Henry Adams

2016 Reprint of 1918 Edition. The Education of Henry Adams records the struggle of Bostonian Henry Adams (1838-1918), in his later years, to come to terms with the dawning 20th century, so different from the world of his youth. It is also a sharp critique of 19th century educational theory and practice. In 1907, Adams began privately circulating copies of a limited edition printed at his own expense. Commercial publication had to await its author’s 1918 death, whereupon it won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize. The Modern Library placed it first in a list of the top 100 English-language nonfiction books of the twentieth century. Contents: Editor’s preface / Henry Cabot Lodge – Quincy (1838-1848) – Boston (1848-1854) – Washington (1850-1854) – Harvard College (1854-1858) – Berlin (1858-1859) – Rome (1859-1860) – Treason (1860-1861) – Diplomacy (1861) – Foes or friends (1862) – Political morality (1862) – The battle of the rams (1863) – Eccentricity (1863) – The perfection of human society (1864) – Dilettantism (1865-1866) – Darwinism (1867-1868) – The press (1868) – President Grant (1869) – Free fight (1869-1870) – Chaos (1870) – Failure (1871) – Twenty years after (1892) – Chicago (1893) – Silence (1894-1898) – Indian summer (1898-1899) – The dynamo and the virgin (1900) – Twilight (1901) – Teufelsdrockh (1901) – The height of knowledge (1902) – The abyss of ignorance (1902) – Vis inertiae (1903) – The grammar of science (1903) – Vis nova (1903-1904) – A dynamic theory of history (1904) – A law of acceleration (1904) – Nunc age (1905).