{"product_id":"henry-adams-and-the-need-william-merrill-decker-9780934909877","title":"Henry Adams and the Need to Know","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor Henry Adams at the turn of the twentieth century, as for his successors in the twenty-first, the relation of mind to a world remade by technology and geopolitical conflict largely determined the destiny of civil life. Henry Adams and the Need to Know presents fourteen essays that articulate Adams' ongoing preoccupation with knowledge, stressing his eclecticism and his need to clarify the role of critical intelligence in public life. Adams' work appeals to a wide spectrum of historical and literary inquiry and claims a place in multiple scholarly contexts. The topics covered in this volume range from international politics (of Adams' age and ours) to portraiture, from orientalism and travel literature to the disintegration of the human mind. Here, leading scholars explore often-overlooked details of Adams' relationships with people and ideas. They reopen settled topics and reframe truisms. Each essay affirms, in one way or another, that to study Adams is to discover his continuing and astonishing relevance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William Merrill Decker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0934909873\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780934909877\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Massachusetts Historical Society\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/19\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.56h x 6.38w x 1.41d","brand":"William Merrill Decker","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48453434507519,"sku":"9780934909877","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c6555db2-376f-480e-9d67-3c9186850776.jpg?v=1777300200","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/henry-adams-and-the-need-william-merrill-decker-9780934909877","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}