The Education Of Henry Adams An Autobiography by Edmund Morris

The Education of Henry Adams is the celebrated autobiography of the American historian Henry Adams, grandson of John Quincy Adams and great-grandson of John Adams. Written in the third person, it follows his life from a privileged Boston boyhood through the Civil War era and into the rapidly changing America of the Gilded Age.

Part memoir and part history, the book reflects on politics, science, art and the failure of a traditional education to prepare a man for the modern world. First circulated privately in 1907 and made widely available only after the author's death in 1918, it remains a classic of American nonfiction. This Modern Library edition includes an introduction by historian Edmund Morris.

• Author: Henry Adams
• Introduction: Edmund Morris
• Publisher: Modern Library
• Format: Paperback, 560 pages
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9780679640103