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Adams wrote this book, a meditative reflection on medieval culture, well after his historical masterpiece, The History of the United States of America (1801-1817).
A comprehensive personal survey of the district's history and culture providing a revelation of the eternal glory of mediaeval art
Adams wrote this book, a meditative reflection on medieval culture, well after his historical masterpiece, The History of the United States of America (1801-1817).
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The relationship, between reader and writer, of son and father, may have existed in Queen Elizabeth's time, but is much too close to be true for ours.
This Library of America volume includes the best-known works of Henry Adams, one of the most powerful and original minds to illuminate the American scene from the Civil War to World War I. Now brought together for the first time in a single ...
To say that the book was a revelation is inadequately to express a fact; at once all the theology, philosophy, and mysticism, the poli tics, sociology, and economics, the romance, literature, and art of that greatest epoch of Christian ...