Henry Adams in Washington Linking the Personal and Public Lives of America’s Man of Letters

Ormond Seavey, "Henry Adams in Washington: Linking the Personal and Public Lives of America’s Man of Letters"
English | ISBN: 0813944643 | 2020 | 404 pages | PDF | 19 MB
A descendent of two U.S. presidents and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Henry Adams enjoyed a very particular place in American life, not least due to his ancestry. Yet despite his prolific writing in the years between 1877 and 1891, when he lived in Washington, D.C., Adams has somehow slipped into the gap between history and literature. In Henry Adams in Washington, Ormond Seavey integrates the diverse aspects of Adams’s writing, arguing for his placement among the major American writers of the nineteenth century.