Word: adamses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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LETTERS OF HENRY ADAMS 1892-1918- Edited by Worthington Chauncey Ford- Hought on Mifflin ($4.50).
When Henry Adams was 20 years old, he had his future career nicely calculated.
That was in 1858, ten months before John Brown raided Harper's Ferry. And like most plans in that period, Henry Adams' went up in gunsmoke. He stayed in Washington while the South seceded, then went to London when his father was appointed minister to England. The extent...
Readers of one masterpiece, The Education of Henry Adams, know how enigmatic he seems in his autobiography. But readers of his letters get a clearer picture of his wit, the range of his interests, the depths of his despondency. Eight years ago a 552-page collection of them carried his...
Because Adams knew everybody, read everything, traveled everywhere and wrote his letters as carefully as he wrote his books, they combined to give an astonishing picture of 60 years of U. S. life.