The Education of Henry AdamsThe Floating Press, 2009 M01 1 - 773 pages The Education of Henry Adams is the autobiography of the Bostonian Henry Adams. As he approached his seventieth birthday when "the mind wakes to find itself looking blankly into the void of death," Adams wrote and privately printed 100 copies of his "Education", a reflection on the incredible events of the 19th century. Adams meditates on his sense of disorientation with the scientific and technological expansion over his lifetime. After his death the book was commercially published, going on to become a best-seller and to win the Pulitzer Prize. |
Contents
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Chapter V Berlin 18581859 | 112 |
Chapter VI Rome 18591860 | 131 |
Chapter XVIII Free Fight 18691870 | 413 |
Chapter XIX Chaos 1870 | 437 |
Chapter XX Failure 1871 | 460 |
Chapter XXI Twenty Years After 1892 | 484 |
Chapter XXII Chicago 1893 | 510 |
Chapter XXIII Silence 18941898 | 532 |
Chapter XXIV Indian Summer 18981899 | 556 |
Chapter XXV The Dynamo and the Virgin 1900 | 581 |
Chapter VII Treason 18601861 | 155 |
Chapter VIII Diplomacy 1861 | 173 |
Chapter IX Foes or Friends 1862 | 200 |
Chapter X Political Morality 1862 | 226 |
Chapter XI The Battle of the Rams 1863 | 261 |
Chapter XII Eccentricity 1863 | 280 |
Chapter XIII The Perfection of Human Society 1864 | 302 |
Chapter XIV Dilettantism 18651866 | 323 |
Chapter XV Darwinism 18671868 | 347 |
Chapter XVI The Press 1868 | 367 |
Chapter XVII President Grant 1869 | 393 |
Chapter XXVI Twilight 1901 | 599 |
Chapter XXVII Teufelsdrockh 1901 | 617 |
Chapter XXVIII The Height of Knowledge 1902 | 638 |
Chapter XXIX The Abyss of Ignorance 1902 | 653 |
Chapter XXX Vis Inertiae 1903 | 668 |
Chapter XXXI The Grammar of Science 1903 | 688 |
Chapter XXXII Vis Nova 19031904 | 707 |
Chapter XXXIII A Dynamic Theory of History 1904 | 725 |
Chapter XXXIV A Law of Acceleration 1904 | 748 |
Chapter XXXV Nunc Age 1905 | 763 |
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