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Author Brown, David S. (David Scott), 1966- author.

Title The last American aristocrat : the brilliant life and improbable education of Henry Adams / David S. Brown.

Publication Info. New York : Scribner, 2020.

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  92 ADAMS    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  B ADAMS, HENRY    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Non Fiction  B ADAMS    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  BIOGRAPHY ADAMS    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Biographies  B ADAMS    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  B ADAMS HENRY    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIO ADAMS    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Biography  B ADAMS    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Biography  B-ADAMS BRO    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  92 ADAMS, HEN    Check Shelf

Edition First Scribner hardcover edition.
Description xi, 451 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary Illuminates the achievements of the nineteenth-century historian, writer, and intellectual, discussing Adams's relationships with political leaders inside and outside of his family and his witness to the dawn of modern America.
"Henry Adams is perhaps the most eclectic, accomplished, and important American writer of his time. His autobiography and modern classic The Education of Henry Adams was widely considered one of the best English-language nonfiction books of the 20th century. The last member of his distinguished family--after great-grandfather John Adams, and grandfather John Quincy Adams--to gain national attention, he is remembered today as an historian, a political commentator, and a memoirist. Now, historian David Brown sheds light on the brilliant yet under-celebrated life of this major American intellectual. Adams not only lived through the Civil War and the Industrial Revolution but he met Abraham Lincoln, bowed before Queen Victoria, and counted powerful figures, including Secretary of State John Hay, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, and President Theodore Roosevelt as friends and neighbors. His observations of these men and their policies in his private letters provide a penetrating assessment of Gilded Age America on the cusp of the modern era." -- Inside front jacket flap.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-423) and index.
Subject Adams, Henry, 1838-1918.
Historians -- United States -- Biography.
Authors, American -- Biography.
Adams, Henry, 1838-1918. (OCoLC)fst00049713
Authors, American. (OCoLC)fst00821764
Historians. (OCoLC)fst00957686
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Biography.
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Biographies.
ISBN 9781982128234 (hardcover)
1982128232 (hardcover)
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