Henry Adams - Hardcover

Samuels, Ernest

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 067438735X ISBN 13: 9780674387355

Verlag: Harvard University Press, 1989

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Book by Samuels Ernest

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Written with suavity and utter assurance. -- Mark Feeney "Boston Sunday Globe" This is a very readable history of the intellectual development and influence of America's most creative--and, in later years, morosely crotchety--minds...Samuels' contribution to our understanding of Henry Adams...is distinctive and profound. -- Ronald Grant Nutter "Borderlines" This book...is a complete success. Nowhere does it seem compressed or unintelligible...or skimpy. Rather it seems both economical--not a word wasted--and ample--all relevant topics are thoroughly explored...In all, "Henry Adams" is a remarkable feat of the biographer's art...I am glad that this brilliant, crotchety man has got a biography, and gladder still that it was written by Ernest Samuels. -- Hugh Brogan "New York Times Book Review" Written with suavity and utter assurance. advised, 'in order to prevent biographers from taking it in theirs.' But even at his most crotchety...Henry Adams himself might not have been able to resist this enthralling book. "Henry Adams" is a remarkable feat of the biographer's art...I am glad that this brilliant, crotchety man has got a biography, and gladder still that it was written by Ernest Samuels. The revision and abridgment of the three volumes have been performed with uncanny skill. What results is one of the most powerful literary-intellectual biographies ever done of an American. -- R. W. B. Lewis [This] is a very readable history of the intellectual development and influence of America's most creative--and, in later years, morosely crotchety--minds...Samuels' contribution to our understanding of Henry Adams...is distinctive and profound. -- Ronald Grant Nutter "Borderlines" This welcome distillation reaffirms the enduring reputation of the original work and should earn for Samuels a new generation of admirers...And the book is a pleasure to read. 'Take your own life,' Adams once advised, 'in order to prevent biographers from taking it in theirs.' But even at his most crotchety...Henry Adams himself might not have been able to resist this enthralling book. -- Harold Holzer "Chicago Tribune"

Reseña del editor

Ernest Samuels' Pulitzer Prize-winning, multivolume work on Henry Adams is now a compact, updated, one-volume biography.

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• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1989
• ISBN 10: 067438735X
• ISBN 13: 9780674387355
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 544