Franklin Library: HENRY ADAMS: EDUCATION: JOHN ADAMS'S GRANDSON: U.S. & EUROPE

Description: Franklin Library leather edition of "The Education of Henry Adams," a Limited edition, Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney, one of the 100 GREATEST BOOKS OF ALL TIME series, published in 1982. Bound in hunter green leather, the book has matching silk end leaves, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, hubbed spine, a satin book marker, gold gilding on three edges---in near FINE condition. Henry Adams, who lived from 1838-1918, was the great grandson of John Adams, 2nd President of the U.S. and the grandson of the 6th President of the U.S., John Quincy Adams. When Henry was twelve, he visited Washington, D.C. with his father, Charles Francis Adams. Young Henry graduated from HARVARD and traveled to Berlin to study law and to see the continent. "Education" has chapters on "Diplomacy," "Harvard College 1854-58," "Berlin," "Rome," "Treason" "Washington 185-54," "Quincy 1838-1848," "Foes or Friends," "The Battle of the Rams," "Eccentricity," "Darwinism," "Dilettantism 1865-1866," "The Press," "President Grant," "The Dynamo and the Virgin," "The Abyss of Ignorance," "Failure 1871," "Silence 1894-1898," "Chaos 1870," "The Grammar of Science," "A Law of Acceleration," "Indian Summer 1898-1899," "The Height of Knowledge 1902," "Vis Inertiae 1903," "The Dynamic Theory of History 1904," "Nunc Age 1905," "Twilight." This volume was written in 1905 as a sequel to Adams' 'Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres." Adams opens the book by citing Rousseau and his famous opening lines in "Confessions": "I have shown myself as I was; contemptible and vile when I was so; good, generous, sublime, when I was so. . ." 530 pages, including an Index. I offer combined shipping.

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