Henry Adams: A Biography

ISBN-13: 9781138524774 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 410 str.

Elizabeth Stevenson

Opis

His great grandfather and his grandfather had been presidents of the United States, and to a small boy this seemed a matter of course in his family. This biography explains how Henry Adams became the man both admired and feared in his later years.

Spis treści

Preface, Acknowledgments, 1 Starting Place, 2 Negative Happiness, 3 Maiden Voyage, 4 The Winter Before the War, 5 Outpost, 6 A London Bachelor, 7 Washington Reporter, 8 Professor Adams, 9 Mr. and Mrs. Adams, 10 Marlborough Street, 11 Lafayette Square, 12 Disaster, 13 The Growth of a Mind, 14 AToyLand, 15 The Breakfast Table, 16 Time and the Sliding Rock, 17 The History, 18 DosBocas, 19 The Cathedrals, 20 Twelfth Century—and Twentieth, 21 Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, 22 Multiplicity, 23 The Education of Henry Adams, 24 Science, History, and Imagination, 25 Satanic Gentleman, 26 “Remember My Music”, Notes, Selective Bibliography, Index

O autorze

Stevenson, Elizabeth