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Henry Adams: The Middle Years, by Ernest Samuels. Boston's testy Brahmin found life pretty pleasant in those charmed years when his Eve-Marian ("Clover") Hooper-was in charge of the education of Henry Adams...
Henry Adams: The Middle Years, by Ernest Samuels. When Adams still had his Eve (Marian "Clover" Hooper), and the world was as sweet as this sourish Boston Brahmin ever found...
Henry Adams: The Middle Years, by Ernest Samuels. The second volume of a projected three-volume biography of the brilliant Boston Brahmin focused on the happy years when witty, vivacious Marian ("Clover") Hooper was Adams...
...Demand is feeding on success," said Lucien O. Hooper of Wall Street's W. E. Hutton & Co. It seemed an understatement indeed in a week when the stock market again surged to new highs, but it was the best explanation Wall Street had to offer for what has become the most spectacular phenomenon of the 1958 business recovery. On all but one day last week, stocks climbed to new records, closed the week at 564.68 on the Dow-Jones industrial average, up 10.42 for the week to an alltime record.* The Dow-Jones industrial average, most volatile...
...miracle of the middle years that even Adams did not expect, according to Samuels, was his remarkably happy marriage at 34 to 28-year-old Marian ("Clover") Hooper, a witty, independent-minded fellow Brahmin. Characteristically, Adams says not a word of wife or marriage in the Education, possibly because the twelve-year idyll was to end in Marian's suicide after her father's death. But until then Henry Adams basked in the reflected glow of the brightest and most exclusive salon keeper of the Washington of the late...