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The Education of Henry Adams/A Centennial Version.
Distributed by the University of Virginia Press 542 pages, 7 x 10 (2007)
$34.95 cloth ISBN: 978-0-934-909-91-4
Order at University of Virginia Press “With The Education of Henry Adams: A Centennial Version, editors Edward Chalfant and Conrad Edick Wright have at long last returned this celebrated book to the author's vision. Combining close attention to the private printing's typesetting and editorial shortcomings with valuable insights into the history of the book and Adams's reasons for writing it, they have also inserted marginal corrections by Adams in his working copies of the 1907 printing. With an introductory note, an invitation to readers, and a postscript, they have both traced the text's own story and offered a compelling interpretation of the author's motives.” MHS ---------------------------------------- Edward Chalfant and Conrad Wright talked about the book they co-edited, The Education of Henry Adams: A Centennial Version, published by the Massachusetts Historical Society. In 1907 Henry Adams published his famous and highly regarded autobiography. The book was marked by its third person narration, personal criticism, and reflections on America at the turn of the century. A hundred years later, the Massachusetts Historical Society celebrated the work of Mr. Adams with a centennial version. After their presentation the editors responded to audience members' questions. Click below to watch the presentation. 
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Both Sides of the Ocean/A Biography of Henry Adams/His First Life: 1838-1862. Archon Books, Hamden CT 1982 $42.50 "No one will be able to comprehend the formative years of this phenomenal man without depending on Both Sides of the Ocean." —New York Times"...researched 1100 feet into the stacks." —Boston Globe "...filled with new facts and acute insights about one of the most perennially interesting of all Americans." —Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. "...a most intriguing tale." "...weaving the facts with all the care of a master story-teller." —American History Illustrated "...a
completely new and refreshing portrait of a young man on his way,
knowing where he is going and willing to take the chances to get
there. And he does get there." "...a startling story of a famous young man whose secret adventures included some that may have secretly affected the history of the nation." —Newsday "...shows...just how successful young Henry Adams was in wielding political influence behind the scenes, first in Washington and then in London, at the outset of the Civil War." — Dartmouth Alumni Magazine "As a secret newpaper correspondent in London, Henry Adams was instrumental...in the Trent Affair...averting armed conflict between Great Britain and the Unionists." —Publishers Weekly |
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Better in Darkness/A Biography of Henry Adams/His Second Life: 1862-1891. Archon Books, North Haven CT 1994 $52.50 "I winced at its size and weight and when I picked up Better in Darkness, but I found that it needed to be 641 pages long and to have another 288 pages of notes and index. This is scholarly criticism of a very high order." —Edward Galligan in Sewanee Review"...immensely impressive and moving attempt to make the dead live again." —New York Times "...towering...often startling, continually absorbing." —Publishers Weekly "...this account...benefits not only from files and records not available to earlier biographers, but from Chalfant's extraordinary narrative abilities...." —Nineteenth Century Literature "...the second volume of Chalfant's full and fascinating account establishes his work as the life of Henry Adams - meticulous in research, thoughtful in judgement, crisp and readable in style, a first-class historical biography." —Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. |
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Improvement of the World/A Biography of Henry Adams/His Last Life: 1891-1918, Archon Books, North Haven CT 2001 $55.00 "This third and concluding volume of Edward Chalfant's biography of Henry Adams is the most complete and detailed study not only of Adams, but of virtually any American literary or intellectual figure." —Choice"…a revealing look at the workings of a first-class mind." "…an enriching experience." "Adams's belief in the power of committed individuals to improve the world is compelling, even in today's cynical climate." —Booklist "...the Henry Adams who emerges…is a wholly engaging person, much more rounded, and much livelier, than previous treatments have made him seem. He emerges much the way contemporaries must have seen him, as truly a leading figure of his country in his time." —Richard E. Neustadt "Chalfant's biography successfully destabilizes
the Jamesian vision of Adams as a brittle aesthete—and does
so with a minimum of speculation and a maximum of evidence…much
of it new." "…[the book] reveals the startling extent
of Adams's political activity." "…he was extraordinarily
powerful behind the scenes." "…in the last third
of his life he begins to seem daringly modern...." |
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Order the following book from Xlibris. Phone 888 795-4274 New Entryways to Ten Important Works by William Shakespeare, Xlibris, 2005 The book provides key assistance—not too little, not too much—to persons of any age who would like to think for themselves about Shakespeare. The suggestions offered are all new and pivotal. They concern Romeo & Juliet, Othello, Julius Caesar, Measure for Measure, The Merchant of Venice, Sonnets 1-126, Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, and Anthony & Cleopatra. |
