Title: Henry Adams /
Authors: Samuels, Ernest,; Aaron, Daniel,
Date: 1989
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
Physical description: xiv, 504 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: E
Contents: Brahmin Pattern -- The grand tour -- Witness to history -- A golden time -- A young reformer of thirty -- Harvard College once more -- In quest of historical principles -- The return of the native -- Literary debut -- European orbit -- The golden age of Lafayette Square -- Portraits past and present -- The forsaken garden -- The seasons of nirvana -- History and the posthumous life -- The paradoxes of Polynesia -- Between worlds -- Journey into chaos -- Brothers in prophecy -- Behind the scenes -- New England gothic -- Thirteenth-century unity -- The shield of protection -- Schoolboy at seventy -- Teachers of teachers -- The benevolent sage -- The abandoning universe.
Subject headings (LCSH): Adams, Henry, 1838-1918.; Case studies.; Historians--United States--Biography.