Umfang:
Online-Ressource (xlv, 505 p)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0192823698
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9780192823694
Serie:
Oxford world's classics
Inhalt:
As a journalist, historian and novelist born into a family that included two past presidents of the United States, Henry Adams was constantly focused on the American experiment. The Education of Henry Adams (1918) recounts his own and the country's education from 1838, the year of his birth, to 1905, exploring America as both a success and a failure and voicing his deep scepticism about mankind's power to control the direction of history. Written with immense wit andirony, reassembling the past while glimpsing the future, Adams's vision expresses what Henry James declared the `complex fate' to
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Cover; Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Henry Adams; THE EDUCATION OF HENRY ADAMS; Explanatory Notes; Index;
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780191610486
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780192823694
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Education of Henry Adams
Sprache:
Englisch
Mehr zum Autor:
Nadel, Ira 1943-
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