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Education of Henry Adams

Education of Henry Adams

Adams, Henry

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Literary FiguresGeneral EducationGeneral United States History

ISBN13: 9798880915057
Publisher: Start Publishing Pd
Published: May 22 2024
Pages: 324
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Education of Henry Adams is the Pulitzer Prize winning autobiography of Henry Adams. The Education is much more a record of Adams's introspection than of his deeds. It is an extended meditation on the social technological political and intellectual changes that occurred over Adams's lifetime. Adams concluded that his traditional education at Harvard failed to help him come to terms with the rapid changes he saw in his lifetime; hence his need for self-education. Adams repeatedly laments that his formal education grounded in the classics history and literature as was then the fashion did not give him the scientific and mathematical knowledge needed to grasp the scientific breakthroughs of the 1890s and 1900s. The organizing thread of the book is how the proper schooling and other aspects of his youth was time wasted; thus his search for self-education through experiences friendships and reading. Many consider this the best autobiography ever written.

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