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Henry Adams, Jr. letter to father, February 5, 1952
No full textThis letter was written by Henry Adams Jr. to his father, Henry Adams, expressing his feelings and experiences during his time in the army. Junior, as he was called in the family, had been posted to Alaska after his basic Army training, and assigned to an otherwise all-white company.
In this three-page letter written on decorative notepaper, Junior writes about his army experiences, and says that he feels like Jackie Robinson, a test case for integrated units in the military. The United States Army was not integrated during World War II; African Americans and whites served in separate units. Harry Truman issued an executive order intended to end segregation in the Army in January of 1948, and letters such as this indicate that the executive order took some time to become fully effective
Henry Adams
Full text linkHenry Adams has been a neglected figure in recent years. The Education of Henry Adams is widely accepted as a classic of American letters, but his other work is little read except by specialists. His brilliant journalism is out of print, while Mont Saint Michel and Chartres and the novels Democracy and Esther receive little attention. Even the monumental History of the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, considered by some to be the greatest history written by any American, seems noticed only by scholars of that period.James P. Young, author of the highly regarded Reconsidering American Liberalism, seeks to revive interest in the thought of Adams by extracting core ideas from his writings concerning both American political development and the course of world history and then showing their relevance to the contemporary longing for a democratic revival. In this revisionist study, Young denies that Adams was a reactionary critic of democracy and instead contends that he was an idealistic, though often disappointed, advocate of representative government. Young focuses on Adams's belief that capitalist industrial development during the Gilded Age had debased American ideals and then turns to a careful study of Adams's famous contrast of the unity of medieval society with the fragmentation of modern technological society. Though fully aware of Adams's concerns about technology, Young rejects the idea that Adams was bitterly opposed to twentieth century developments in that field. He shows that though a liberal democrat with inclinations toward reform, Adams is much too sophisticated to be captured by any simple label
The Degradation of the Democratic Dogma. By Henry Adams
No full text"In this Quarterly for January, 1919, there appeared a review of the remarkable book entitled 'The Education of Henry Adams'…Readers of 'The Education of Henry Adams' will surely want to read this book.
The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography
No full textMaitriseProposition d'interprétation - en partie en anglais et en français - d'un classique de la littérature américaine, The Education of Henry Adams
The Education of Henry Adams, an Autobiography
No full text"Henry Adams was one of the most brilliant historians produced by America…Generations of educators and historians are sure to find inspiration in this most remarkable autobiography yet produced in the new world.
Henry Adams and the History of Postmodernism
No full text Henry Adams (1838-1918)1 complained in his famous autobiography, The Education of Henry Adams, that "in the want of positive instincts, he had drifted into the mental indolence of history" (1918, 36). Adams's self-deprecating irony is hard to take in the right proportions. Underneath the wit, reticence, and good manners, Adams was enormously vain. When, with patrician arrogance, he turned his cynical wit against himself in The Education of Henry Adams, he portrayed his own life as a simulacrum of modern civilization. Fascinated by politics, but unwilling to seek office, he subsumed the course of American history under the subtext of his cultural autobiography. He admitted to his friend, Francis Walker, that, "he rather liked having his head in the clouds" because he was able "to see over the crowd" (Samuels 1958, 19). There is an elite tone in Adams's language, but it cannot be reduced to class advantage exacerbated by artistic sensitivity. Adams's style was also a moral criticism of his modern role, the political and economic status which he and the other members of his distinguished family could never escape. </jats:p
L'éducation de Henry Adams : une autobiographie
No full text« The Education of Henry Adams : an autobiography. »
One must understand to what use the third person is put in this text in order to understand Adams' views and the stakes he played for in his life. A historian cannot but see in it a document on alienation, even though this point of view may be reductive and should be corrected by the literary critic.II faut comprendre l'utilisation qui est faite de la troisième personne dans ce texte pour comprendre la visée d'Adams et les enjeux de sa vie. L'historien ne peut s'empêcher d'y voir un document sur l'aliénation, bien qu'il s'agisse d'un point de vue réducteur que le critique littéraire se doit de corriger.Brun-Rovet Jeanine. L'éducation de Henry Adams : une autobiographie. In: Revue Française d'Etudes Américaines, N°16, février 1983. Les intellectuels aux Etats-Unis. pp. 23-29
Notes bibliographiques sur Henry Adams
No full textNotre propos n’est pas de présenter sur Adams une bibliographie même sélective, mais de donner quelques indications permettant à un lecteur curieux de s’y reconnaître dans une abondante littérature. On trouvera, signée de Charles Vandersee, une excellente introduction à l’œuvre d’Adams avec une bibliographie complète dans :VANDERSEE, Charles, de l’University de Texas à Arlington. Henry Adams, (American Literary Realism, 1870-1910, vol. 2, n° 2, Summer 1969, pp. 89-120). La plus complète biogr..
Notes bibliographiques sur Henry Adams
No full textNotre propos n’est pas de présenter sur Adams une bibliographie même sélective, mais de donner quelques indications permettant à un lecteur curieux de s’y reconnaître dans une abondante littérature. On trouvera, signée de Charles Vandersee, une excellente introduction à l’œuvre d’Adams avec une bibliographie complète dans :VANDERSEE, Charles, de l’University de Texas à Arlington. Henry Adams, (American Literary Realism, 1870-1910, vol. 2, n° 2, Summer 1969, pp. 89-120). La plus complète biogr..
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