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The Education of Henry Adams is a life memoir that narrates the hardships of Bostonian Henry Adams, in his older years, to arrive to the periods with the birth of the 20th century, so varying from the world of his younger years. It is also a strong critic of 19th century instructive philosophy and tradition. Henry then started secretly published copies of a limited edition issued in his own way. Commercial reproduction of the novel had to anticipate its writer’s 1918 demise, upon which it was awarded the 1919 Pulitzer Prize. The Modern Library ranked it first in a count of the top 100 English-language nonfiction writings of the 20th century. The Education is much more a documentation of Henry’s contemplation rather than of his acts. It is a longer arbitration on the social, technological, political, and rational transitions that happened during the days of Henry. Henry resolved that his conventional instruction was unsuccessful to assist him when it comes to the speedy alterations, thus, his necessity for self-teaching. The assembling gist of the autobiography is how the effective education and other elements of his childhood was time misused, hence, his hunt for self-teaching through experiences, acquaintances and learning through reading. Henry Brooks Adams was a historian and member of the Adams political family, his ancestors being the two United States Presidents. As a youthful Harvard graduate, he became the secretary to his father, Charles Francis Adams, Abraham Lincoln's ambassador in London, a position that had much impact on the younger lad, both through experience of wartime diplomacy and captivation in English tradition, particularly the writings of John Stuart Mill. After the Civil War in the U. S., he was a noteworthy political journalist who amused America's prime scholars at his residences in Washington and Boston.

The Education of Henry Adams is the Pulitzer Prize winning autobiography of Henry Adams. The Education is much more a record of Adams's introspection than of his deeds. It is an extended meditation on the social, technological, political, and intellectual changes that occurred over Adams's lifetime. Adams concluded that his traditional education at Harvard failed to help him come to terms with the rapid changes he saw in his lifetime; hence his need for self-education. Adams repeatedly laments that his formal education, grounded in the classics, history, and literature, as was then the fashion, did not give him the scientific and mathematical knowledge needed to grasp the scientific breakthroughs of the 1890s and 1900s. The organizing thread of the book is how the "proper" schooling and other aspects of his youth, was time wasted; thus his search for self-education through experiences, friendships, and reading. Many consider this the best autobiography ever written.

As a journalist, historian, and novelist born into a family that included two past presidents of the United States, Henry Adams was constantly focused on the American experiment. An immediate bestseller awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1919, The Education of Henry Adams recounts his own and the country's education from 1838, the year of his birth, to 1905, incorporating the Civil War, capitalist expansion and the growth of the United States as a world power. Exploring America as both a success and a failure, contradiction was the very impetus that compelled Adams to write Education, in which he was also able to voice his deep skepticism about mankind's power to control the direction of history. Written with immense wit and irony, reassembling the past while glimpsing the future, Adams' vision expresses what Henry James declared the complex fate to be an American, and remains one of the most compelling works of American autobiography today.

The Education of Henry Adams is an autobiography that 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 of the book 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 20th century.

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An unabridged edition (1918) with preface by Henry Cabot Lodge; chapters include: 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 & the Virgin (1900) - Twilight (1901) - Teufelsdröckh (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)

Originally written for close friends and family The Education of Henry Adams was released to the public only after the death of its author, American historian HENRY BROOKS ADAMS (1838-1918), a member of the Adams political family, Harvard professor of medieval history, and a journalist dedicated to exposing corruption. A reflective chronicle of life as a man crossing eras, Adams details how he saw the world around him change from the 19th century to the 20th. The schooling he had as a child left him wholly unprepared for the newer, faster world. The 20th century was dominated by scientific development, and Adams's education had been grounded in classical literature and history-areas that, he believed, offered no real advantages to modern man. Readers interested in historical periods of transition will find this autobiography a moving and thoughtful way to access the stresses and fears of those who lived through the last great societal shift.

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The Education of Henry Adams Henry Adams A Critique of 19th Century Educational Theory and Practice 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. The Education is much more a record of Adams's introspection than of his deeds. It is an extended meditation on the social, technological, political, and intellectual changes that occurred over Adams's lifetime. Adams concluded that his traditional education failed to help him come to terms with these rapid changes; hence his need for self-education. The organizing thread of the book is how the "proper" schooling and other aspects of his youth, was time wasted; thus his search for self-education through experiences, friendships, and reading. Many aspects of the contemporary world emerged during the half-century between the Civil War and World War I, a half-century coinciding with Adams's adult life. An important theme of The Education is its author's bewilderment and concern at the rapid advance in science and technology over the course of his lifetime, sometimes now called Second Industrial Revolution but incarnated in his term "dynamo." The Education mentions the recent discovery of x-rays and radioactivity, and shows a familiarity with radio waves in his citation of Marconi and Branly. Adams purchased an automobile as early as 1902, in order to make better use of a summer in France researching Mont Saint Michel and Chartres. He correctly predicted that the 20th century would see even more explosive changes. Adams repeatedly laments that his formal education, grounded in the classics, history, and literature, as was then the fashion, did not give him the scientific and mathematical knowledge needed to grasp the scientific breakthroughs of the 1890s and 1900s.