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Henry Adams and the Gift of Pessimism
- cafard 12y agoNYRB has brought out an excellent slim volume having the opening and closing chapters of Adams's history of the US 1800-1816. Interesting and amusing though The Education of Henry Adams is, the history is much superior. Yvor Winters's book, In Defense of Reason, a volume mostly of literary criticism has the best essay on Adams that I have ever read, addressing some of what the linked essay does.