Author: davidsbrown

A “marvelous…compelling” (The New York Times Book Review) biography of literary icon Henry Adams–one of America’s most prominent writers and intellectuals, who witnessed and contributed to the United States’ dramatic transition from a colonial society to a modern nation. Henry Adams is perhaps the most eclectic, accomplished, and important American writer of his time. His autobiography and … His autobiography and modern classic The Education of Henry Adams was widely considered one of the best English-language nonfiction books of the 20th century. The last member of his distinguished family–after great-grandfather John Adams, and grandfather John Quincy Adams–to gain national attention,…