Henry Adams and the Making of America.(Book review)

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Henry Adams and the Making of America. By Garry Wills. (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. 467 pages. $30.00.

What is the purpose of intellectual biography? Garry Wills has written many such books, well-received for their stimulating insights. Now, unlike in John Wayne's America, he takes on a written text, Henry Adams's History of the United States of America During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson. One expects an assessment of Adams's work, perhaps an analysis of its subject and past historians' views, and hopefully, given Wills's reputation, an ...

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