Henry Adams and the Making of America
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781616824419 (1616824417)
Publish date: August 2nd 2007
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Boston/NY)
Pages no: 480
Edition language: English
Wills decries our ignorance of Henry Adams great history of the early nineteenth century. (I fear I belong to the vast number of ignoramuses with regard to this work.) Wills sets out to rectify that nescience. Apparently, Adams even had a very different slant on the Jeffersonians, arguing that thei...