Henry Adams and the Making of America
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781299888449 (1299888445)
Publish date: January 1st 2007
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
Pages no: 460
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...