num_pages: 320
description: Adams was a historian, an intellectual born into the fourth generation of a family of distinguished politicians, diplomats and statesmen that included two presidents of the United States. His "Education" is thus steeped in history, that of his family and of the American politics, culture and identity they helped to shape. At the same time he elaborates his own 'dynamic theory of history' as the product of what he calls the conflict between the Virgin and the 'All the steam in the world could not, like the Virgin, build Chartre's.'
language: English
title: The Education of Henry Adams
titlecomplete: The Education of Henry Adams
characters: Henry Adams
genres: American, History, Classics, Autobiography, Memoir, Education, American History, Politics, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 4684
awards: awardedAt: -1609430400000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Biography or Autobiography
publisher: Echo Library