A Henry Adams reader
By: Edited and with an introd. by Elizabeth Stevenson
Contributors: Stevenson, Elizabeth, 1919-1999
Publisher: P. Smith
Published: 1968
Place of publication: Gloucester, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 381
Subjects: Stevenson, Elizabeth, 1919-1999
Notes: Bibliographical footnotes.
Table of contents: title: Journalist. Henry Adams meets Garibaldi ; Captaine John Smith ; The New York gold conspiracy; title: Novelist. Mount Vernon picnic ; The American girl; title: Biographer. The importance of Albert Gallatin ; John Randolph's eccentricities; title: Historian. Toussaint Louverture ; Harrison and Tecumthe ; Tippecanoe ; Privateering; title: Letter writer. Samoa, 1890; title: Mediaevalist. La chanson de Roland ; Roses and apses ; The three queens; title: Autobiographer. Quincy ; A law of acceleration; title: Verse writer. Buddha and Brahma ; Prayer to the virgin of Chartres; title: Speculative essayist. The tendency of history ; The rule of phase applied to history.