Henry Adams and the Making of America (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780618872664)

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. His nine-volume chronicle of America from 1800 to 1816 established new standards for employing archival sources, firsthand reportage, eyewitness accounts, and other techniques that have become the essence of modern history.

Ambitious in scope, nuanced in detail, Henry Adams and the Making of America throws brilliant light on the historian and the making of history.

Author: Garry Wills
ISBN-10: 0618872663
ISBN-13: 9780618872664
Publisher: Mariner Books
Language: English
Published: 08/02/2007
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 8.64h x 5.88w x 1.23d