Henry Adams was one of the most original minds to confront the American scene from the Civil War to the First World War. Privately printed in 1907 and published to wide acclaim shortly after the author's death in 1918. Adams's Education is less a memoir than a work of brilliant history that charts the great transformation in nineteenth-century American intellectual life. A work of enormous humanity and remarkable prescience, The Education of Henry Adams presents a world poised between the certanties of the past and the uncertain possibilities of the future.
