The Education is much more a record of Adams's introspection than of his deeds. It is an extended meditation on the social, technological, political, and intellectual changes that occurred over Adams's lifetime. Adams concluded that his traditional education failed to help him come to terms with these rapid changes; hence his need for self-education. The organizing thread of the book is how the "proper" schooling and other aspects of his youth, was time wasted; thus his search for self-education through experiences, ...
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The Education is much more a record of Adams's introspection than of his deeds. It is an extended meditation on the social, technological, political, and intellectual changes that occurred over Adams's lifetime. Adams concluded that his traditional education failed to help him come to terms with these rapid changes; hence his need for self-education. The organizing thread of the book is how the "proper" schooling and other aspects of his youth, was time wasted; thus his search for self-education through experiences, friendships, and reading.
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Fine. No Jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7; Trade Paperback in Fine Condition. Clean, bright, unmarked, tight, solid and square book. Very nice volume about the life of Henry Adams, great-grandson of John Adams, revolutionary hero; grandson of John Quincy Adams, President of the United States; son of Charles Francis Adams, Minister to England during the Civil War. A man of letters himself, the history chair at Harvard, an author, and an inveterate traveler. When this book was published in 1918, it immediately won and has since held an assured place among significant works of American Literature. 375 pages. 6 x 9 inches. 2007, NuVision Publications, LLC, USA.