The Education of Henry Adams
1918 • 502 pages
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The Education of Henry Adams is the autobiography of the Bostonian Henry Adams. As he approached his seventieth birthday when "the mind wakes to find itself looking blankly into the void of death," Adams wrote and privately printed 100 copies of his "Education", a reflection on the incredible events of the 19th century. Adams meditates on his sense of disorientation with the scientific and technological expansion over his lifetime. After his death the book was commercially published, going on to become a best-seller and to win the Pulitzer Prize.
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What a self/important, self-obsessed gasbag.
The book was famously passed around like samizdat for ages, but it is tedious and avoids much about the man that is interesting or important. I took me years to get round to this, but I was driven by the sense that I should really read what is said to be such an important work.
Spare yourself the effort. Life is too short.
Here is a a nice little wrap up of the man from a 1,000+ series of interesting vignettes
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2018/08/erik-visits-american-grave-part-299
