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A revelatory biography of literary icon Henry Adams - one of America's most prominent writers and intellectuals of his era, who witnessed and contributed to America's dramatic transition from "colonial" to "modern."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.
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David Brown is the author of several books on U.S. biography, including "The First Populist: The Defiant Life of Andrew Jackson," "The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams," and "Paradise Lost: A Life F. Scott Fitzgerald." His book, "Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography," was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. He lives in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania.
