Henry Adams

Ernest Samuels

    1. Brahmin Pattern

    2. The Grand Tour

    3. Witness to History

    4. A Golden Time

    5. A Young Reformer of Thirty

    6. Harvard College Once More

    7. In Quest of Historical Principles

    8. The Return of the Native

    9. Literary Debut

    10. European Orbit

    11. The Golden Age of Lafayette Square

    12. Portraits Past and Present

    13. The Forsaken Garden

    14. The Season of Nirvana

    15. History and the Posthumous Life

    16. The Paradoxes of Polynesia

    17. Between Worlds

    18. Journey into Chaos

    19. Brothers in Prophecy

    20. Behind the Scenes

    21. New England Gothic

    22. Thirteenth-Century Unity

    23. The Shield of Protection

    24. Schoolboy at Seventy

    25. Teacher of Teachers

    26. The Benevolent Sage

    27. The Abandoning Universe

    Notes

    Index

  • Cover: Henry Adams

Ernest Samuels is Franklyn Bliss Snyder Professor of English, Emeritus, Northwestern University and winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Biography.