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Democracy: An American Novel (Penguin Classics)
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Democracy: An American Novel (Penguin Classics) Paperback - 2008

by Adams, Henry

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An instant bestseller when first published in 1880,Democracy is the quintessential American political novel. At its heartis Madeleine Lee, a young widow who comes to Washington, D.C.,to understand the workings of power. Pursued by Silas Ratcliffe, themost influential member of the Senate, Madeleine soon sees enoughof power and its corrupting influence to last her a lifetime.

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Penguin Classics. Collectible - Good. Collectible - Good. Slightly dampstained. From the library of American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter William Safire. (american literature, politics, novel)
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  • Title Democracy: An American Novel (Penguin Classics)
  • Author Adams, Henry
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Collectible - Good
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Classics, New Delhi
  • Date 2008-07-01
  • Features Bibliography, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # P03G-00424
  • ISBN 9780143039808 / 0143039806
  • Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.6 x 5 x 0.5 in (19.30 x 12.70 x 1.27 cm)
  • Reading level 1120
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
    • Geographic Orientation: District of Columbia
    • Locality: Washington, D.C.
  • Library of Congress subjects Washington (D.C.), Widows
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008018650
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Summary

An instant bestseller when first published in 1880, Democracy is the quintessential American political novel. At its heart is Madeleine Lee, a young widow who comes to Washington, D.C., to understand the workings of power. Pursued by Silas Ratcliffe, the most influential member of the Senate, Madeleine soon sees enough of power and its corrupting influence to last her a lifetime.

From the publisher

Born in 1838 into one of the oldest and most distinguished families in Boston, a family which had produced two American presidents, Henry Adams had the opportunity to pursue a wide-ranging variety of intellectual interests during the course of his life. Functioning both in the world of practical men and afffairs (as a journalist and an assistant to his father, who was an American diplomat in Washinton and London), and in the world of ideas (as a prolific writer, the editor of the prestigious North American Review, and a professor of medieval, european, and American history at Harvard), Adams was one of the few men of his era who attempted to understand art, thought, culture, and history as one complex force field of interacting energies. His two masterworks in this dazzling effort are Mont Saint Michel and Chartres and The Education of Henry Adams, published one after the other in 1904 and 1907. Taken together they may be read as Adams' spiritual autobiography—two monumental volumes in which he attempts to bring together into a vast synthesis all of his knowledge of politics, economics, psychology, science, philosophy, art, and literature in order to attempt to understand the individual's place in history and society. They constitute one of the greatest historical and philosophical meditations on the human condition in all of literature.

Media reviews

' [One] of the most perceptive books ever written aboutWashington.'
Maureen Dowd, The New York Times

About the author

Born in 1838 into one of the oldest and most distinguished families in Boston, a family which had produced two American presidents, Henry Adams had the opportunity to pursue a wide-ranging variety of intellectual interests during the course of his life. Functioning both in the world of practical men and afffairs (as a journalist and an assistant to his father, who was an American diplomat in Washinton and London), and in the world of ideas (as a prolific writer, the editor of the prestigious North American Review, and a professor of medieval, european, and American history at Harvard), Adams was one of the few men of his era who attempted to understand art, thought, culture, and history as one complex force field of interacting energies. His two masterworks in this dazzling effort are Mont Saint Michel and Chartres and The Education of Henry Adams, published one after the other in 1904 and 1907. Taken together they may be read as Adams' spiritual autobiography--two monumental volumes in which he attempts to bring together into a vast synthesis all of his knowledge of politics, economics, psychology, science, philosophy, art, and literature in order to attempt to understand the individual's place in history and society. They constitute one of the greatest historical and philosophical meditations on the human condition in all of literature.

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