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Description edit
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
Characters/People edit
- Henry Adams: Chronicler of 19th century culture
- John Russell: Add a description of this character.
- Charles Sumner
- Palmerston
- Grant
- Charles Francis Adams
- Monckton Milnes
- Swinburne
- Mr. Gladstone
- La Farge
- John Hay
- Mr. Seward
- Palgrave
- John La Farge
- Langley
- Garibaldi
- Mr. Evarts
- Gibbon
- Granville
- Rafael
- Roebuck
- Clarence King
- Roosevelt
- Lincoln
- John Adams
- Darwin
- Brooks
- Lowell
- Lee
- Karl Pearson
- Godkin
- Matthew Arnold
- Lamar
- Hoar
- Carlyle
- Boutwell
- Mckinley
- Thackeray
- Mcculloch
- Mr. Weed
- Kaiser
- Jay Gould
- Walker
- Richardson
- Mason
- Andrew Johnson
Setting & Locations edit
- Washington
- London
- New Englander
- America
- Europe
- Boston
- Paris
- Russia
- New York
- Rome
- Germany
- France
- Berlin
- White House
- Chicago
- Chartres
- Cambridge
- Mount Vernon Street
- United States
- China
- Italy
- Portland Place
- Dresden
- Maryland
- Virginia
- Japan
- St. Gaudens
- Pteraspis
- Concord
- St. Petersburg
- Harvard College
- Massachusetts
- Alabama
- State Street
- Manchuria
- Ohio
- Atlantic
- Canada
- St. Louis
- Vicksburg
- Baireuth
- Pennsylvania
- Asia
- Wenlock
- Mississippi
First Sentence edit
This volume, written in 1905 as a sequel to the same author's 'Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres,' was privately printed, to the number of one hundred copies, in 1906, and sent to the persons interested, for their assent, correction, or suggestion.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 87 of 96 in Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List. (authoritative list)
Preceded by The Interpretation of Dreams, and followed by Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung.
This is book 1 of 39 in Modern Library's 100 Best Nonfiction Books: The Board's List. (authoritative list)
Followed by The Varieties of Religious Experience.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Henry Adams (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Add the publisher.
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1907
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 624
Publisher: Add the publisher.
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1907
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 624
Awards edit
- Pulitzer Prize (1919: Biography or Autobiography)
Classification edit
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- Dewey: 973.07202
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