Dictionary definition: Adams, Henry Brooks

Article: Henry Adams is the subject of a colloquium and ...
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Article: Henry Brooks Adams
Encyclopedia of World Biography;      700+ words ...Henry Brooks Adams The American historian and author Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) lived in an era of remarkable ... Michel and Chartres" and "The Education of Henry Adams." Henry Adams was born in Boston on Feb. 16, 1838, the fourth ...

Encyclopedia entry: Adams, Henry (Brooks)
The Oxford Companion to American Literature;      700+ words ...Adams, Henry [Brooks] (1838– ... This work sets forth Henry Adams's dynamic theory of ... multiplicity, The Education of Henry Adams (1907). The skepticism ... manikin” Henry Adams, a figure used to measure ...

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The Washington Times;  April 4, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Bruce Fein, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES In "The Education of Henry Adams," Henry Brooks Adams surveyed the White House across Lafayette Park and observed: "The progress of Evolution from President Washington to President ...

Article: The Superpower Book Swap; 1,000 Soviet Volumes at the King ...
The Washington Post;  September 27, 1988 ;     700+ words ... ... sold in the Soviet Union. This effort, coordinated by both governments, begins with "The Education of Henry Adams" by Henry Brooks Adams. The Adams book is being proofread by USIA officials before it is returned to the Soviets for printing ...

Encyclopedia entry: Henry Adams
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      700+ words ...Henry Adams 1838-1918, American writer and historian ... era, presented in The Education of Henry Adams (privately printed 1906, pub. 1918 ... Adams and prefaced with a memoir by Henry Adams, contains three brilliant essays on ...

Article: Henry Adams, Sleuth
The Washington Post;  September 17, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... believable, of a few weeks in the life of Henry Adams, the historian and memoirist. It is ... he would confront in The Education of Henry Adams. Readers who share my uneasiness about ... times this is warranted, chiefly when "Henry Adams" does things that one finds it difficult ...