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		Henry Adams: History of the United States of America During the Administrations of James Madison [Library of America]
		Henry Adams and His World Transactions of the American Philosophical Society Vol 83 Part 4
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	Henry Adams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Henry Brooks Adams (February 16, 1838 – March 27, 1918) was an American historian, journalist and novelist.
		Adams saw himself as a traditionalist longing for the democratic ideal of the 17th and 18th centuries.
		In 1912 Adams suffered a disabling stroke; in 1918 he died at his home in Washington, D.C. As a historian, Adams is considered to have been the first (in 1874 -1876) to conduct historical seminar work in the United States.
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	Henry Adams
		Henry Brooks Adams (February 16, 1838 - March 27, 1918) was a U.S. historian, journalist and novelist.
		In 1912 Adams suffered a disabling stroke; in 1918 he died at his home in Washington, D.C. As a historian, Adams is considered to have been the first (in 1874 -1876) to conduct historical seminary work in the United States.
		Adams also published Life of Albert Gallatin (1879), John Randolph (1882), and Historical Essays (1891), besides editing The Writings of Albert Gallatin (3 volumes, 1879) and, in collaboration with H. Lodge, Ernest Young and J. Laughlin, Essays in Anglo-Saxon Law (1876).
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	Charles Francis Adams, Sr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Charles Francis Adams (August 18, 1807, Boston - November 21, 1886, Boston), the son of John Quincy Adams and Louisa Adams, was an American lawyer, politician, diplomat and writer.
		Adams was elected member of the Massachusetts state house of representatives in 1831, served in the State senate 1835-1840, founded and edited the journal Boston Whig in 1846, and was an unsuccessful candidate of the Free-Soil Party for Vice President of the United States in 1848.
		The UK had already recognized Confederate belligerency, and Adams was instrumental in maintaining British neutrality, rather than recognizing the Confederate states during the American Civil War.
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	Henry Adams -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Adams saw himself as a traditionalist longing for the democratic ideal of the (additional info and facts about 17th) 17th and (additional info and facts about 18th centuries) 18th centuries.
		In 1870 Adams was appointed (Someone who is a member of the faculty at a college or university) Professor of Medieval History at Harvard, a position he held until his early retirement in 1877, aged only 39.
		Upon her death Adams took up a restless life as a globetrotter, travelling extensively and, for years, spending summers in (The capital and largest city of France; and international center of culture and commerce) Paris and winters in Washington.
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	The Education of Henry Adams
		The Brooks grandfather was as amiable and as sympathetic as the Adams grandfather.
		Henry Adams never knew a boy of his generation to like a master, and the task of remaining on friendly terms with one's own family, in such a relation, was never easy.
		Henry Adams himself held the opinion that his instructors were very nearly right, and when he became a professor in his turn, and made mortifying mistakes in ranking his scholars, he still obstinately insisted that on the whole, he was not far wrong.
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		The Education of Henry Adams is simultaneously an insightful autobiography written in the third person and a damning critique of modern educational theory and practice.
		As a historian, Adams is considered to have been the first (in 1874 -1876) to conduct historical seminar work in the United States.
		John Quincy Adams (1833 - 1894) was an American lawyer and politician, the grandson of president John Quincy Adams and the son of Charles Francis Adams.
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	CliffsNotes::The Education of Henry Adams:Book Summary and Study Guide
		Henry Brooks Adams was born in Boston, Massachusetts on February 16, 1838, the fourth of seven children of Charles Francis Adams and Abigail Brooks Adams.
		Henry’s distinguished family included a great-grandfather, John Adams (1735–1826), who was the second President of the United States, as well as a grandfather, John Quincy Adams (1767–1848), the sixth President of the United States.
		Henry Adams was partially paralyzed by a stroke in 1912 and spent most of his remaining years traveling, resting, receiving dignitaries, and quietly socializing at his home at 1603 H Street in Washington.
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	Henry Adams
		The American historian Henry Adams, son of Charles Francis Adams and grandson of John Quincy Adams, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on the 16th of February 1838.
		Adams also published: Life of Albert Gallatin (1879), John Randolph (1882) in the "American Statesmen Series," and Historical Essays (1891); besides editing Documents Relating to New England Federalism (1877), and the Writings of Albert Gallatin (3 volumes, 1879).
		Adams' finest work and the one most remembered today, The Education of Henry Adams (1918), was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize, and is one of the finest memoirs in American letters.
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	MSN Encarta - Henry Adams
		Adams, Henry Brooks (historian) (1838-1918), American historian, philosopher of history, and cultural critic, who wrote one of the most outstanding American autobiographies.
		A son of the elder Charles Francis Adams, Adams was born in Boston, on February 16, 1838, and educated at Harvard University.
		Derived from the second law of thermodynamics, the theory maintains that mechanical energy is in a constant state of dissipation.
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	MHS \| Adams-Thoron Papers, 1844-1992 : Guide to the Collection
		Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) was the son of Charles Francis Adams (1807-1886) and Abigail (Brooks) Adams (1808-1889), the grandson of John Quincy Adams (1767-1848), and the great grandson of John Adams (1735-1826).
		Henry Adams was a prolific correspondent and his papers include letters sent to his brother-in-law, Edward Hooper, his niece, Louisa Hooper, and Ward Thoron (who eventually married his niece).
		Henry Adams commissioned Augustus Saint Gaudens to design the memorial after arion Hooper Adams's death in 1885 and it was finished in 1891.
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	Literary Encyclopedia: Adams, Henry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Henry’s father, Charles Francis Adams, also served in the House of Representatives and ran unsuccessfully for president as the candidate of the Free-Soil Party; his appointment to the Court of Saint James from 1861 to 1868 marked the culmination of his public career.
		Adams meanwhile worked a desk job at the American legation, attended social functions in an attempt to foster pro-Unionist sentiment in British society, and escorted his mother and siblings in their various travels, often feeling profoundly embarrassed by his absence from the battlefield.
		Adams provides great insight into the nature and tendencies of state tyranny and his readerships accordingly have extended beyond the narrow confines of his social class.
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	Henry Adams
		Henry Brooks Adams was born on February 16, 1838, in Boston, Massachusetts, the great-grandson of President John Adams, grandson of President John Quincy Adams and son of railroad executive and historian Charles Francis Adams.
		His most widely known work, the autobiography The Education of Henry Adams, was privately printed in 1904, but was not publicly released until 1918.
		Adams saw his autobiography as a "study of twentieth-century multiplicity," a sort of sequel to Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres.
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	Amazon.com: The Education of Henry Adams (Oxford World's Classics): Books: Henry Adams,Ira Bruce Nadel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Adams portrays the journey of his life as an ongoing attempt at educating himself, yet he disdainfully learned that formal education was useless and that his dabbling had brought him to a dead end.
		Henry Adams, was a historian, journalist and political private secretary, with intrests as varied as physics, chemistry, geology, evolution, mathematics, politics, history, and diplomacy.
		The elucidation and harsh criticism that Adams lauds upon himself and the chaos of the world during the 19th and early 20th centuries is at once acute, biting, satiric, and warm with a fervent desire to see this country come of age in the new era of modern technological advances.
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		In the 1880s Adams also wrote two novels: ' was published anonymously in 1880 and immediately became popular.
		Another brother, Charles Francis Adams, Jr (1835 - 1915), graduated at Harvard in 1856, and served on the Union side in the Civil War, receiving in 1865 the brevet of brigadier-general in the regular army.
		He was president of the Union Pacific Railroad from 1884 to 1890, having previously become widely known as an authority on the management of railways.
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	Henry Adams
		Henry Adams, who was perhaps the first American cosmopolitan, came from the most prominent family of the country — a grandfather and a great-grandfather had been presidents, and the father was Congressman and Minister to Britain.
		The letters Adams wrote around the turn of his century — and there was no better letter writer in American literature than Henry Adams — reveal him to be an advocate of politics on a global scale, enjoying and exploiting the privileges of an inside observer.
		Henry Adams summarized his notions of travel in a 1902 letter to one of his nieces: "My idea of paradise is a perfect automobile going thirty miles an hour on a smooth road to a twelfth-century cathedral."
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	The Education of Henry Adams Summary & Essays - Henry Brooks Adams
		The Education of Henry Adams had been an important and influential text for a decade before Henry Adams was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in autobiography in 1918.
		Adams does provide insight into the Adams family, a source of fascination not unlike the Kennedys, but he is curiously silent on two areas of his own life.
		Adams’ release of one hundred self-published folios of The Education of Henry Adams to some of the most powerful people on earth—from writers to heads of state—guaranteed interest.
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	AllRefer.com - Henry Adams (Historians, U.S., Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Henry Adams 1838–1918, American writer and historian, b.
		Drawing upon the physical sciences for guidance and influenced by his brother, Brooks Adams, he found a satisfactory unifying principle in force, or energy.
		It is, however, a tour de force, and describes his unsuccessful efforts to achieve intellectual peace in an age when the force of the dynamo was dominant.
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		He was a friend of Henry Cabot Lodge and his wife Nannie, and so came under the spell of Henry Adams' younger brother Brooks.
		Brooks Adams had left his law practice at the age of 47 to devote his time to writing and the study of history.
		According to Brooks, the life of nations, like any form of "life," progresses from an early stage of fear to a later stage of greed while evolving from barbarism to civilization.
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	Henry Brooks Adams Biography / Biography of Henry Brooks Adams Biography
		The American historian and author Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) lived in an era of remarkable change and recorded the implications of the period with great perception.
		Henry Adams was born in Boston on Feb. 16, 1838, the fourth of seven children of Charles Francis and Abigail Brooks Adams.
		Henry's mother was the daughter of one of Boston's wealthiest men; his father was the son of John Quincy Adams, sixth president of the United States, and the grandson of John Adams, second president.
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	Amazon.ca: Books: Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Henry Adams referred to this book as "A Study of Thirteenth-Cntury Unity," and its expansive scope, together with the author's deep understanding of the period, makes it a classic in art history as well as in American literature.
		Henry Adams' record of his journeys through France, searching for images of unity in an age of conflict, is accompanied by observations on literature, politics, religion, and major church leaders such as Abelard, St. Francis of Assisi, and St. Thomas Aquinas.
		Adams is able to render vividly the fleches, the portals, the arches, the statues, and the stained glass panels, and he provides the tourist with a thorough understanding of the achievement represented by medieval religious art.
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	PAL: Henry Adams (1838-1918)
		D16.8.A2 The education of Henry Adams; an autobiography.
		E175.5.A2 A4 The correspondence of Henry James and Henry Adams, 1877-1914.
		The Correspondence of Henry James and Henry Adams, 1877-1914.
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	The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Brooks Adams eBook by BookRags
		Adams could do him no good, and would be likely to do him all the harm in his power.
		Adams accepted it all; expected to be kept at arm’s length; admitted that the reasons were just.
		Henry Adams roused no emotion; if he had roused a disagreeable one, he would have ceased to exist.
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	AHA Information: Henry Adams Presidential Address (1894) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Henry Adams : Democracy, Esther, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, The Education of Henry Adams (Library of America)
		We know what followed Rousseau; what industrial and political struggles have resulted from the teachings of Adam Smith; what a revolution and what vehement opposition has been and still is caused by the ideas of Darwin.
		Henry Adams (Feb. 16, 1838 to March 27, 1918) graduated from Harvard in 1858, then studied law in Germany.
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