Wills showcases Henry Adams's little-known but seminal study of the early United States and elicits from it fresh insights on the paradoxes that roil America to this day. Adams drew on his own southern fixation, his extensive foreign travel, his poli One of our greatest historians offers a surprising new view of the greatest historian of the nineteenth century, Henry Adams/5. · MAKING OF AMERICA. By Garry Wills. pp. Houghton Mifflin Company. $ According to Garry Wills, Henry Adams's "History of the United States of America During the Administrations of Thomas Author: Richard Lingeman. · 'Henry Adams and the Making of America' In his latest book, historian Garry Wills takes a new approach to a history of America written by a member of the famous Adams bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 7 mins.
In Henry Adams and the Making of America, Pulitzer Prize winner Garry Wills makes a compelling argument for a reassessment of Henry Adams as our nation's greatest historian and his History as the "nonfiction prose masterpiece of the nineteenth century in America.". Adams drew on his own southern fixation, his extensive foreign travel, his. Henry Adams And The Making Of America|Garry Wills, The American Gardener: Or a Treatise on the Situation, Soil, Fencing and Laying Out of Gardens, on the Making and Managing of Hot-Beds and of Vegetables, Herbs, Fruits, and Flowers|William Cobbett, Let's Start! Drawing: Contains Everything You Need to Get Going|Emma Foa, Winter Botany a Companion Volume, to the Author's Plant Materials of. Henry Adams and the Making of America by Garry Wills. "Garry Wills brings a lucid style, imaginative analysis, and the talent for historical elucidation that won him the Pulitzer Prize for Lincoln at Gettysburg. He has cogently made the case for Adams as a masterly diplomatic, military, and financial historian, and I unreservedly recommend.
One of our greatest historians offers a surprising new view of the greatest historian of the nineteenth century, Henry Adams. Wills showcases Henry Adams's little-known but seminal study of the early United States and elicits from it fresh insights on the paradoxes that roil America to this day. Adams drew on his own southern fixation, his extensive foreign travel, his political service in Lincoln's White House, and much more to invent the study of history as we know it. In Henry Adams and the Making of America, Pulitzer Prize winner Garry Wills makes a compelling argument for a reassessment of Henry Adams as our nation’s greatest historian and his History as the “nonfiction prose masterpiece of the nineteenth century in America.”. Adams drew on his own southern fixation, his extensive foreign travel, his political service in the Lincoln administration, and much more to invent the study of history as we know it. Wills showcases Henry Adams's little-known but seminal study of the early United States and elicits from it fresh insights on the paradoxes that roil America to this day. Adams drew on his own southern fixation, his extensive foreign travel, his poli One of our greatest historians offers a surprising new view of the greatest historian of the nineteenth century, Henry Adams.
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