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Henry Adams / Ernest Samuels.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1989.Description: xiv, 504 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 067438735X (alk. paper) :
  • 9780674387355 (alk. paper)
  • 0674387368
  • 9780674387362
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • E175.5.A2 S26 1989
Contents:
Brahmin Pattern -- The grand tour -- Witness to history -- A golden time -- A young reformer of thirty -- Harvard College once more -- In quest of historical principles -- The return of the native -- Literary debut -- European orbit -- The golden age of Lafayette Square -- Portraits past and present -- The forsaken garden -- The seasons of nirvana -- History and the posthumous life -- The paradoxes of Polynesia -- Between worlds -- Journey into chaos -- Brothers in prophecy -- Behind the scenes -- New England gothic -- Thirteenth-century unity -- The shield of protection -- Schoolboy at seventy -- Teachers of teachers -- The benevolent sage -- The abandoning universe.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks E175.5.A2S26 1989 1 Available 33710001097240

Abridgement of the author's 3 v. biographical and critical study of Adams, published between 1948 and 1964.

Bibliography: p. [465]-487.

Includes index.

Brahmin Pattern -- The grand tour -- Witness to history -- A golden time -- A young reformer of thirty -- Harvard College once more -- In quest of historical principles -- The return of the native -- Literary debut -- European orbit -- The golden age of Lafayette Square -- Portraits past and present -- The forsaken garden -- The seasons of nirvana -- History and the posthumous life -- The paradoxes of Polynesia -- Between worlds -- Journey into chaos -- Brothers in prophecy -- Behind the scenes -- New England gothic -- Thirteenth-century unity -- The shield of protection -- Schoolboy at seventy -- Teachers of teachers -- The benevolent sage -- The abandoning universe.