Henry Adams (1) (1838–1918)
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Henry Adams was born in Boston, Massachusetts on February 16, 1838, the son of American diplomat Charles Francis Adams and grandson of President John Quincy Adams. Educated at Harvard University, he worked in Washington, D.C., as his father's secretary before embarking on a career in journalism and toon meer later in teaching. A prominent American historian, he wrote several important historical works. His works include The Education of Henry Adams, Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, Esther: A Novel, and Democracy: An American Novel. He died on March 27, 1918 at the age of 80. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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History of the United States during the administrations of Jefferson and Madison (1930) 55 exemplaren
The Formative Years: A History of the United States During the Administrations of Jefferson and Madison by Henry Adams (1947) 10 exemplaren
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History of the United States of America during the first administration of James Madison (2019) 3 exemplaren
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Complete Works of Henry Adams 1 exemplaar
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- Adams, Charles Francis, Jr. (brother)
Adams, Brooks (brother)
Adams, Charles Francis (father)
Adams, John Quincy (grandfather)
Adams, John (great-grandfather)
Adams, Abigail (great-grandmother) (toon alle 18)
Adams, Marian Hooper (wife)
Adams, Samuel (cousin)
Lodge, Henry Cabot (student)
King, Clarence (friend)
Hay, John (friend)
La Farge, John (friend)
Cameron, Elizabeth (friend)
Richardson, Henry Hobson (friend)
Howells, William Dean (friend)
Wharton, Edith (friend)
Berenson, Bernard (friend)
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- Phi Kappa Psi
Irving Literary Society
Boston Daily Advertiser
New York Times
Harvard University
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (toon alle 8)
American Historical Association (president)
North American Review - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Bowdoin Prize (1858)
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First published in 1904 as a kind of guidebook for younger family members to bring with them to Europe, this book benefits from the fact that it was written by the kind of rich, connected nineteenth-century dude (Henry Adams' paternal grandfather and great-grandfather were both U.S. presidents) who had the means and time to spend months travelling western Europe and lingering over historic sites. Adams knows a lot about not just Mont-Saint-Michel and the cathedral of Chartres, but also many other medieval ecclesiastical buildings!
Adams also clearly felt unconstrained by the kinds of qualms that later historians would feel about making sweeping statements about their subjects. He is all wild claims ("In no well-regulated community, under a proper system of police, could the Virgin feel at home, and the same thing may be said of most other saints as well as sinners") and stuff that sounds nice and poetic but doesn't really mean anything ("The man who wanders into the twelfth century is lost, unless he can grow prematurely young") and hilarious swipes at some major historical figures (Héloise of Argenteuil was "by French standards, worth at least a dozen Abélards, if only because she called Saint Bernard a false apostle"; Abélard "taught philosophy to [Héloise] not so much because he believed in philosophy or in her as because he believed in himself").
I found this all deeply entertaining. It's not good history—not only has some of what Adams got to say here been superseded by later research, but it's all built on a whole foundation of weirdo paternalistic sexism and more than a smattering of antisemitism—and I wouldn't recommend reading it as such. For a variety of reasons, historians aren't really trained to write like Adams anymore, but I do feel a little envious about the leeway Adams had to just say fuck it and write about a vibe. If he's still to be read today, it should be for that.… (meer)