The Education of Henry Adams
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The Education of Henry Adams
| Author | Henry Adams |
|---|---|
| Published | 1918 |
| Recommended | 2 times |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Henry Adams — great-grandson of John Adams, grandson of John Quincy — writes his own life in the third person as the record of an education that failed: an eighteenth-century training in classics, law and moral certainty issued to a man who had to live in the world of the dynamo, the railroad and industrial finance. The founders’ republic seen from the far end. |
Where I heard about it
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Photographed in July 2016 (Books photo album)
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Brendan McCord — on his Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List, closing out The American Experiment alongside Macaes’s History Has Begun. Full transcription: The Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List.
About this edition
The late chapters, “The Dynamo and the Virgin” and “A Dynamic Theory of History,” abandon memoir for an attempt to measure history by the acceleration of available force. Privately printed in 1907 and published in 1918, the year after Adams’s death; it won the 1919 Pulitzer.
Connections
- Henry Adams — the author and subject.
- Innovation — the accelerating force the book tries to measure.
- The Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List — the curriculum this came from.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.