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Henry Adams and the Making of America

Henry Adams and the Making of America Paperback - 2005

by Wills, Garry

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005. AP3 - An advance reading copy paperback book SIGNED by author on the title page in very good condition that has some bumped corners, wrinkling, chipping and crease, lighlty curled, line color strip (publisher's defect) on the back, and light shelf wear. The author showcases Henry Adam's little-known but seminal study of the early United States and draws from it fresh insights on the paradoxes that roil America to this day. 9"x6", 425 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.. Signed by Author. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Advance Reading Copy (ARC).
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  • Title Henry Adams and the Making of America
  • Author Wills, Garry
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 467
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston
  • Date 2005
  • Bookseller's Inventory # EC4528BB
  • ISBN 9780618134304 / 0618134301
  • Weight 1.78 lbs (0.81 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.58 x 6.5 x 1.42 in (24.33 x 16.51 x 3.61 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Historiography, Historians - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005040305
  • Dewey Decimal Code 973.46

Summary

One of our greatest historians offers a surprising new view of the greatest historian of the nineteenth century, Henry Adams.

Wills showcases Henry Adams's little-known but seminal study of the early United States and elicits from it fresh insights on the paradoxes that roil America to this day. Adams drew on his own southern fixation, his extensive foreign travel, his political service in Lincoln's White House, and much more to invent the study of history as we know it. His nine-volume chronicle of America from 1800 to 1816 established new standards for employing archival sources, firsthand reportage, eyewitness accounts, and other techniques that have become the essence of modern history.
Adams's innovations went beyond the technical; he posited an essentially ironic view of the legacy of Jefferson and Madison. As is well known, they strove to shield the young country from "foreign entanglements," a standing army, a central bank, and a federal bureaucracy, among other hallmarks of "big government." Yet by the end of their tenures they had permanently entrenched all of these things in American society. This is the "American paradox" that defines us today: the idealized desire for isolation and political simplicity battling against the inexorable growth and intermingling of political, economic, and military forces. As Wills compellingly shows, the ironies spawned two centuries ago still inhabit our foreign policy and the widening schisms over economic and social policy.
Ambitious in scope, nuanced in detail and argument, Henry Adams and the Making of America throws brilliant light on how history is made -- in both senses of the term.

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Media reviews

"With its revisionist stance, felicitous prose and compelling argument, Wills's book charts new directions." Publishers Weekly, Starred

"A contemporary historian pays tribute to a previous one in this personal and rigorous analysis of the works of Henry Adams. . .A marvelous character sketch." Booklist, ALA

"Garry Wills brings a lucid style, imaginative analysis and the talent for historical elucidation...I unreservedly recommend this book." --Richard Lingeman The New York Times Book Review