Education of Henry Adams

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 30, 2023

In Category - *Non-fiction, Biography & Autobiography, History

Authors: Henry Brooks Adams In Year : 1918

Book Language: English

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Editor's Preface and Preface
Chapter 1: Quincy (1838-1848)
Chapter 2: Boston (1848-1854)
Chapter 3: Washington (1850-1854)
Chapter 4: Harvard College (1854-1858)
Chapter 5: Berlin (1858-1859)
Chapter 6: Rome (1859-1860)
Chapter 7: Treason (1860-1861)
Chapter 8: Diplomacy (1861)
Chapter 9: Foes or Friends (1862)
Chapter 10: Political Morality (1862)
Chapter 11: The Battle of the Rams (1863)
Chapter 12: Eccentricity (1863)
Chapter 13: The Perfection of Human Society (1864)
Chapter 14: Dilettantism (1865-1866)
Chapter 15: Darwinism (1867-1868)
Chapter 16: The Press (1868)
Chapter 17: President Grant (1869)
Chapter 18: Free Fight (1869-1870)
Chapter 19: Chaos (1870)
Chapter 20: Failure (1871)
Chapter 21: Twenty Years After (1892)
Chapter 22: Chicago (1893)
Chapter 23: Silence (1894-1898)
Chapter 24: Indian Summer (1898-1899)
Chapter 25: The Dynamo and the Virgin (1900)
Chapter 26: Twilight (1901)
Chapter 27: Teufelsdrockh (1901)
Chapter 28: The Height of Knowledge (1902)
Chapter 29: The Abyss of Ignorance (1902)
Chapter 30: Vis Inertiae (1903)
Chapter 31: The Grammar of Science (1903)
Chaoter 32: Vis Nova (1903-1904)
Chapter 33: A Dynamic Theory of History (1904)
Chapter 34: A Law of Acceleration (1904)
Chapter 35: Nunc Age (1905)

The Education of Henry Adams records the struggle of Bostonian Henry Adams (1838-1918), in early old age, 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. (Introduction by Wikipedia)