Henry Adams

Name: Henry Adams
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

His great grandfather and his grandfather had been presidents of the United States, and to a small boy this seemed a matter of course in his family. This biography explains how Henry Adams became the man both admired and feared in his later years. > His great grandfather and his grandfather had been presidents of the United States, and to a small boy this seemed a matter of course in his family. But Henry Adams, belonging to a later generation, coming to maturity at the time of the Civil War, found himself in an age uncongenial to the leadership of such men as his ancestors. In the changing world of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, Adams found his rightful place as an observer and critic rather than a participant in public life. But no time and no country ever had a keener mind to take note of the comic and tragic qualities embedded in the political, economic, and human drama upon which he gazed. And his writings appeal timelessly in their incisive wit, thes