The Education of Henry Adams

FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS/LIBRARY of AMERICA EDITION. Nov. 1990 trade paperback, Henry Adams (History of the United States of America During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson). His political ideals shaped by two presidential ancestors—great-grandfather John Adams and grandfather John Quincy Adams—Henry Adams was one of the most powerful and original minds to confront the American scene from the Civil War to the First World War.