| Henry Adams and the Making of America Contributor(s): Wills, Garry (Author) |
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ISBN: 0618872663 ISBN-13: 9780618872664 Publisher: Mariner Books OUR PRICE: $28.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2007 Annotation: Bestselling author Wills showcases Henry Adams little-known but seminal studyof the early United States, and draws from it fresh insights on the paradoxesthat roil America to this day. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 19th Century - History | Historiography - History | United States - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 973.46 |
| Physical Information: 1.23" H x 5.88" W x 8.64" (1.35 lbs) 480 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1800-1850 - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Henry Adams and the Making of America, Pulitzer Prize winner Garry Wills makes a compelling argument for a reassessment of Henry Adams as our nation's greatest historian and his History as the "nonfiction prose masterpiece of the nineteenth century in America." Adams drew on his own southern fixation, his extensive foreign travel, his political service in the Lincoln administration, and much more to invent the study of history as we know it. His nine-volume chronicle of America from 1800 to 1816 established new standards for employing archival sources, firsthand reportage, eyewitness accounts, and other techniques that have become the essence of modern history. Ambitious in scope, nuanced in detail, Henry Adams and the Making of America throws brilliant light on the historian and the making of history. |
Contributor Bio(s): Wills, Garry: - GARRY WILLS, a distinguished historian and critic, is the author of numerous books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lincoln at Gettysburg, Saint Augustine, and the best-selling Why I Am a Catholic. A regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, he has won many awards, among them two National Book Critics Circle Awards and the 1998 National Medal for the Humanities. He is a history professor emeritus at Northwestern University. |