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Henry Brooks Adams (February 16, 1838 – March 27, 1918) was an American historian and a member of the Adams political family, descended from two U.S. presidents. As a young Harvard graduate, he served as secretary to his father, Charles Francis Adams, Abraham Lincoln 's ambassador to the United Kingdom.
Henry Adams was a historian, man of letters, and author of one of the outstanding autobiographies of Western literature, The Education of Henry Adams. Adams was the product of Boston’s Brahmin class, a cultured elite that traced its lineage to Puritan New England.
Henry Adams, (born Feb. 16, 1838, Boston, Mass., U.S.—died March 27, 1918, Washington, D.C.), U.S. historian and man of letters. A product of Boston’s elite Brahmin class and a descendant of two presidents, he was infused with disgust for American politics of his time.
Nov 30, 2020 · Henry Adams was born in 1838, “under the shadow of Boston State House,” according to the famous opening sentence of his book “ The Education of Henry Adams .” The “nest of...
Henry Adams (1838-1918). “The Last American Aristocrat,” a new biography by David S. Brown, “reveals how dynastic burden shaped the personality and career of the brilliant, bitter and thoroughly...
Henry Adams has been called an indispensable figure in American thought. Although he famously “took his own life” in the autobiographical Education of Henry Adams, his letters—more intimate and unbuttoned, though hardly unselfconscious—are themselves indi...
Mar 21, 2022 · Henry Adams (b. 1838–d. 1918) was born in Boston into the most prominent political family in the United States. Grandson and great-grandson of presidents, he seemed destined to carry on his family’s tradition of public service.
