Article: Better in Darkness: A Biography of Henry Adams, His Second Life, 1862-1891.(Brief Article)

By Edward Chalfant. (Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1994. Pp. 929. $47.50.)

While there are many Americans represented in intellectual history, Henry Adams stands head and shoulders above the rest. Any study of the nineteenth century is incomplete without considering Henry Adams, and now any study of Henry Adams will be incomplete without considering Edward Chalfant's definitive biography. Better in Darkness is the second volume in this trilogy.

Chalfant has at best an exceptionally difficult task. Not only is he writing a biography about one of America's most complex subjects, he is competing with Ernest Samuels's three-volume biography of Henry Adams which ...

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