Henry Adams's Education: A Family That Nurtured Two Generations of U.S. Presidents

Author: Henry Adams (USA)
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: This book won the Pulitzer Prize in 1919 and has been reprinted multiple times since its publication. It has been translated into many languages and has remained popular and enduring. However, this is the first time a Chinese translation has been released. Henry Adams was a renowned American historian, who studied and taught at Harvard University and served as the president of the American Historical Association. He came from a distinguished presidential family. His third-person autobiographical work, Henry Adams's Education, is a celebrated classic biography and a world-class educational and historical masterpiece. This book combines autobiography with a German-style educational novel to offer a critical evaluation of an era. It is not about the history it narrates but about reflecting on that history, so Adams hopes readers view this book as a philosophical contemplation process on historical philosophy.