The Jeffersonian Transformation
Passages From The "History"
A New York Review Books OriginalThe ideal introduction and companion to Adams's massive and magisterial history of the administrations of Jefferson and Madison, presenting an indelible picture of America's startling rise to world power.Henry Adams's nine-volume History of the United States of America During the Administrations of Jefferson and Madison is the first great history of America as well as the first great American work of history, one that rivals Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in its eloquence and sweep. But where Gibbon told of imperial collapse, Adams recorded the rise of an unprecedented new power, America, which,…
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Weitere Autoren: Wills, Garry
- ISBN: 978-1-59017-215-5
- EAN: 9781590172155
- Produktnummer: 2219449
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
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HENRY ADAMS (1838—1918) was an American historian, journalist and novelist. In 1907 he published his Pulitzer Prize—winning autobiography, The Education of Henry Adams, considered by many to be the most important non-fiction work of the 20th century. He died in 1918 at his home in Washington, D.C.GARRY WILLS, a distinguished historian and critic, is the author of numerous books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lincoln at Gettysburg, Saint Augustine, and the best-selling Why I am a Catholic. A regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, Wills has won many awards, including two National Book Critics Circle Awards and the 1998 National Medal for the Humanities. He is Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern University and lives in Evanston, Illinois.
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