Henry Adams

Summary

Ernest Samuels completed his long study of Henry Adams, the historian, novelist, and descendant of two presidents whose restless intellect shaped American letters at the turn of the century. The biography follows Adams through his teaching, his marriage and its tragic end, his histories of the early republic, and the self questioning that produced The Education of Henry Adams. Samuels gives a full measure of a man who saw himself as a failure yet became one of the keenest observers of a changing nation.