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ADAMS, HENRY The Education of Henry Adams an Autobiography
NY: Heritage Press, c, 1918, 1942. Hardcover. Illustrated by Samuel Chamberlain. The tip of the front cover's fore corners are worn through to the boards, else minor wear on the clean and sound binding. Bkpl and date on front endpapers. "22" written small at bottom of page v, else contents are almost as new. No sliplcase. ; Brown Marbled boards, medium brown cloth spine, bright gold lettering. Frontispiece gravure plus 11 full-page gravures in text. Index. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Introduction by Henry Seidel Canby. "Adams came out of an 18th century tradition where it still seemed possible to explain the universe as a unity with man at its center. When that unity began to break up into a multiplicity of conflicting forces, he sought in history for evidence of a more stable and more powerful unity, and found it in Catholicism of the 12th century. Strengthened by that vision, he came back to his own times to search for an explanation of the dynamisms that seemed to be driving his modern world into tempos of change so rapid that it seemed that the whirling multiple civiliation around him must soon break and fly apart. All he learned was the fact of multiplicity and the fact of rapid change. Like Thoreau, who tried to find a formula which would cover both spirit and nature, he found only direction and ended (so he said) more ignorant than he began... As a result, it has become a fashion to speak of this really great book as a monument to genteel futilitariansism..." but it is much better to regard it as a spiritual autobiography. 4 x 6" color photo of John Adam's house in Quincy MA, dated 1999, is loosely laid-in. The book is printed on easy-on-the-eye cream colored paper. ; 10-1/4" Tall; 483 pages. VG- .
Offered for US$ 15.00 by: Velma Clinton Books - Book number: 21767
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