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[Henry Adams], Vol. 2

Ernest Samuels 1948 © The President and Fellows of Harvard College
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  • 9780674432543 (ebook)
  • 9780674387539 (hardcover)
Subject
  • American: 1789-1899
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  • Frontmatter
  • Chapter One The Return of the Native
    • 1 Flowering Judas and Laissez Faire (page 3)
    • 2 The Social Vortex (page 21)
    • 3 Science and Politics (page 33)
  • Chapter Two The Admirable Alien
    • 1 The Better Part of Valor (page 42)
    • 2 The Failure of a Hero (page 51)
    • 3 Problems of Political Biography (page 56)
  • Chapter Three The Great American Mystery
    • 1 The Education of Madeleine Lee (page 68)
    • 2 A Gallery of Odds and Ends (page 84)
    • 3 Critics and Hoaxes (page 97)
    • 4 A Riot of Interests (page 104)
  • Chapter Four European Orbit
    • 1 Searching Archives (page 111)
    • 2 Belshazzar's Feast (page 122)
    • 3 Old Friends and New (page 126)
    • 4 Means and Ends (page 136)
  • Chapter Five Golden Age of Lafayette Square
    • 1 The Pursuit of Art (page 143)
    • 2 Political Ebb-tide (page 147)
    • 3 Vanity Fair (page 159)
    • 4 The Five of Hearts (page 171)
  • Chapter Six Portraits in Acid
    • 1 The Virginia Don Quixote (page 181)
    • 2 The Mephistopheles of Politics (page 204)
    • 3 Work and the Flight of Years (page 214)
  • Chapter Seven The Warfare between Science and Religion
    • 1 A Literary Conundrum (page 218)
    • 2 The Dilemmas of Determinism (page 227)
    • 3 As Sight of God (page 236)
    • 4 The Lesson of the Falls (page 254)
  • Chapter Eight The Forsaken Garden
    • 1 Point of No Return (page 259)
    • 2 Between Oneself and Eternity (page 276)
  • Chapter Nine The Season of Nirvana
    • 1 Floating down Niagara (page 290)
    • 2 Antechambers to Mystery (page 298)
    • 3 Through History to Buddha (page 320)
    • 4 Preparing for the Press (page 337)
  • Chapter Ten Decline and Fall of the Hero
    • 1 The Social Dynamics of Democracy (page 349)
    • 2 A New Order of Man (page 362)
    • 3 Toward a Theory of Progress (page 372)
    • 4 Resolution of Forces (page 379)
  • Chapter Eleven Art and Scholarship
    • 1 In the Dissecting Room (page 387)
    • 2 Drama and Paradox (page 399)
    • 3 Changed Perspectives (page 405)
    • 4 A Belated Ulysses (page 413)
  • Appendix (page 423)
  • Notes (page 427)
  • Selected Bibliography (page 489)
  • Index (page 499)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
CHR 45.4 (Jan. 1960): 488-489 http://www.jstor.org/stable/25016619
AmQ 11.2 (Summer 1959): 197 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2710687
AL 31.2 (May 1959): 206-207 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2922571
IMH 55.1 (Mar. 1959): 101-102 http://www.jstor.org/stable/27788667
MLR 54.4 (Oct. 1959): 601-602 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3721142
JFAM 5 (1960): 347-348 http://www.jstor.org/stable/41154764
MVHR 46.2 (Sep. 1959): 345-347 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1891566
AHR 71.2 (Jan. 1966): 709-711 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1846556
NEQ 32.1 (Mar. 1959): 102-108 http://www.jstor.org/stable/362217
SAS 29.3 (Summer 1965): 351-354 http://www.jstor.org/stable/40401134
NEQ 63.4 (Dec. 1990): 649-652 http://www.jstor.org/stable/365922
HTE 26.1 (Nov. 1992): 139-140 http://www.jstor.org/stable/494117
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