![]() ![]() It was selected by The Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest nonfiction books of the twentieth century. The Education of Henry Adams is among the oddest and most enlightening books in American literature. ![]() ![]() "He was remarkably prescient about the coming horrors." His political ideals shaped by two presidential ancestors great-grandfather John Adams and grandfather John Quincy Adams? Henry Adams was one of the most powerful and original minds to confront the American scene from the Civil War to the First World War. "I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams," said Gore Vidal. As a man of extraordinary gifts and learning and. ![]() Office Manager Marta Feinstein, Gallery Education Coordinator Stephanie. Few works have so firmly established their position in American literature as The Education of Henry Adams. BAL 32 Reese Narratives of Personal Experience 2 (“certainly one of the great American biographies”). NV 89118 (702) 948-1929 San Francisco Showroom 101 Henry Adams Street. In 1919 it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Modern Library named it as the best non-fiction book published in English since 1900. The text of Education was not made commercially available until 1918, following the author’s death, when it was published by Houghton Mifflin. Rare first edition, one of only 40 copies printed of this classic work. ![]()
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