Henry Adams

The Education of Henry Adams ... An autobiographical meditation on the costs of modernity, providing along the way a richly allusive slice of American history and life as viewed by the great-grandson of our second president. It is occasionally annoying and self-indulgent, but well worth the aggravation. --Wilfred M. McClay, What to Give a 'First Things' Reader, First Things, December 2008

Pessimism and nostalgia at the bright dawn of the twentieth century must have seemed bizarre to contemporaries. --The Intercollegiate Review, on The Education of Henry Adams