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092			_aADAMS, H. _bB877
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100	1		_aBrown, David S. _q(David Scott), _d1966- _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe last American aristocrat : _bthe brilliant life and improbable education of Henry Adams / _cDavid S. Brown.
250			_aFirst Scribner hardcover edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bScribner, _c2020.
264		4	_c©2020
300			_axi, 451 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aIntroduction -- Preface: Back to Beverly -- Becoming Henry Adams. Inheritance ; Education ; Illusions ; Boston ; Washington -- Performing Henry Adams. Flight ; Fury ; Dynamo ; Resonance.
520			_aIlluminates the achievements of the nineteenth-century historian, writer, and intellectual, discussing Adams's relationships with political leaders inside and outside of his family and his witness to the dawn of modern America.
520			_a"Henry Adams is perhaps the most eclectic, accomplished, and important American writer of his time. His autobiography and modern classic The Education of Henry Adams was widely considered one of the best English-language nonfiction books of the 20th century. The last member of his distinguished family--after great-grandfather John Adams, and grandfather John Quincy Adams--to gain national attention, he is remembered today as an historian, a political commentator, and a memoirist. Now, historian David Brown sheds light on the brilliant yet under-celebrated life of this major American intellectual. Adams not only lived through the Civil War and the Industrial Revolution but he met Abraham Lincoln, bowed before Queen Victoria, and counted powerful figures, including Secretary of State John Hay, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, and President Theodore Roosevelt as friends and neighbors. His observations of these men and their policies in his private letters provide a penetrating assessment of Gilded Age America on the cusp of the modern era." -- Inside front jacket flap.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 395-423) and index.
600	1	0	_aAdams, Henry, _d1838-1918. _9141299
650		0	_aHistorians _zUnited States _vBiography. _9141300
650		0	_aAuthors, American _vBiography. _928934
655		7	_aBiographies. _2lcgft _9870
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