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1) Democracy: an American novel

Author

Adams, Henry

Series

Penguin classics

Pub. Date

2008.

Language

English

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Democracy: An American Novel (1880) is a novel by Henry Adams. Published anonymously, Democracy: An American Novel draws on Adams' experience as a political journalist in Washington, DC who worked to expose corruption in American government. Although fictional, the novel is viewed as a commentary on the presidential administrations of the 1870s and political atmospheres surrounding each. "For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot...

2) The education of Henry Adams

Author

Adams, Henry

Series

Library of America paperback classics
Riverside editions
Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Books
Penguin classics

Language

English

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MCL - Pulitzer Prize for Biography

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His political ideas shaped by two presidential ancestors - great-grandfather John Adams and grandfather John Quincy Adams - Henry Adams was one of the most powerful and original minds to confront the American scene from the Civil War to the First World War. Printed privately in 1907 and published to wide acclaim shortly after the author's death in 1918, The Education of Henry Adams is a brilliant, idiosyncratic blend of autobiography and history that...

3) Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres

Author

Adams, Henry

Pub. Date

1936.

Language

English

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Using architecture, sculpture, culture and history, Adams humanizes the medieval period and provides valuable insight on religious philosophy. Mont-Saint Michel and Chartes provides a background and description of the construction of two French landmarks built in the 11th century. The Mont-Saint Michel cathedral was built during a militant time; it was not enough to simply be steadfast in one's own beliefs, but also to make others believe them. Religious...

4) Democracy: an American novel

Author

Adams, Henry B

Pub. Date

2007.

Language

English

5) Italy at war

Author

Adams, Henry Hitch

Series

World War II

Pub. Date

[1982]

Language

English

6) Novels, Mont Saint Michel, The education

Author

Adams, Henry

Series

Library of America

Pub. Date

[1983]

Language

English

7) History of the United States during the administrations of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison

Author

Adams, Henry

Series

Library of America

Pub. Date

1986.

Language

English

8) Thomas Hart Benton: an American original

Author

Adams, Henry

Pub. Date

1989.

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

9) Tom and Jack: the intertwined lives of Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollock

Author

Adams, Henry

Pub. Date

2009.

Edition

First U.S. edition.

Language

English

10) Andrew Wyeth: master drawings from the artist's collection

Author

Adams, Henry

Pub. Date

2006.

Language

English

11) Eakins revealed: the secret life of an American artist

Author

Adams, Henry

Pub. Date

2005.

Language

English

12) Thomas Hart Benton: discoveries and interpretations

Author

Adams, Henry

Pub. Date

[2015]

Language

English

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Thomas Hart Benton, arguably the single most controversial figure in the history of American art, played a major role in shaping three separate movements in American art: the early American modernism of the 1910s and '20s; the Reigonalism of the 1930s (a movement he led in partnership with Grant Wood); and finally (through his influence on his pupil Jackson Pollock) the Abstract Expressionism of the 1940s. Benton was also a notable writer, whose autobiography,...