Henry Adams

Human Events | January 1, 2002| | Copyright

Improvement of the World A Biography of Henry Adams: His Last Life, 18911918, by Edward Chalfant Archon Books, 721 pages, $55

Henry Adams: The Historian as Political Theorist, by James P. Young University Press of Kansas, 324 pages, $35

BOTH THESE BOOKS, IN VERY DIFFERent ways, serve a good purpose: they give their readers reasons to be more interested in the interesting American who is their common subject. Young offers a sober and earnest, if uninspired, interpretation of Henry Adams's distinctively American political thought as found in his major writings. Adams's works have become so ...

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