Henry Adams, the middle years.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Samuels, Ernest, 1903-1996.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adams, Henry, 1838-1918.

Adams, Henry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 514 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1965, c1958,

Contents:

Chapter One: The Return of the Native

1. Flowering Judas and Laissez Faire

2. The Social Vortex

3. Science and Politics

Chapter Two: The Admirable Alien

1. The Better Part of Valor

2. The Failure of a Hero

3. Problems of Political Biography

Chapter Three: The Great American Mystery

1. The Education of Madeleine Lee

2. A Gallery of Odds and Ends

3. Critics and Hoaxes

4. A Riot of Interests

Chapter Four: European Orbit

1. Searching Archives

2. Belshazzar's Feast

3. Old Friends and New

4. Means and Ends

Chapter Five: Golden Age of Lafayette Square

1. The Pursuit of Art

2. Political Ebb-tide

3. Vanity Fair

4. The Five of Hearts

Chapter Six: Portraits in Acid

1. The Virginia Don Quixote

2. The Mephistopheles of Politics

3. Work and the Flight of Years

Chapter Seven: The Warfare between Science and Religion

1. A Literary Conundrum

2. The Dilemmas of Determinism

3. As Sight of God

4. The Lesson of the Falls

Chapter Eight: The Forsaken Garden

1. Point of No Return

2. Between Oneself and Eternity

Chapter Nine: The Season of Nirvana

1. Floating down Niagara

2. Antechambers to Mystery

3. Through History to Buddha

4. Preparing for the Press

Chapter Ten: Decline and Fall of the Hero

1. The Social Dynamics of Democracy

2. A New Order of Man

3. Toward a Theory of Progress

4. Resolution of Forces

Chapter Eleven: Art and Scholarship

1. In the Dissecting Room

2. Drama and Paradox

3. Changed Perspectives

4. A Belated Ulysses

Appendix

Notes:

"The writings of Henry Adams, 1878-1891": p. [423]-426. Bibliography: p. [489]-497.

ISBN:

0674387538