The Last American Aristocrat
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The Last American Aristocrat
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Author : David S. Brown
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2021-11-09
The Last American Aristocrat written by David S. Brown and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A “marvelous…compelling” (The New York Times Book Review) biography of literary icon Henry Adams—one of America’s most prominent writers and intellectuals, who witnessed and contributed to the United States’ dramatic transition from a colonial society to a modern nation. Henry Adams is perhaps the most eclectic, accomplished, and important American writer of his time. His autobiography and modern classic The Education of Henry Adams was widely considered one of the best English-language nonfiction books of the 20th century. The last member of his distinguished family—after great-grandfather John Adams, and grandfather John Quincy Adams—to gain national attention, he is remembered today as an historian, a political commentator, and a memoirist. Now, historian David Brown sheds light on the brilliant yet under-celebrated life of this major American intellectual. Adams not only lived through the Civil War and the Industrial Revolution but he met Abraham Lincoln, bowed before Queen Victoria, and counted Secretary of State John Hay, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, and President Theodore Roosevelt as friends and neighbors. His observations of these powerful men and their policies in his private letters provide a penetrating assessment of Gilded Age America on the cusp of the modern era. “Thoroughly researched and gracefully written” (The Wall Street Journal), The Last American Aristocrat details Adams’s relationships with his wife (Marian “Clover” Hooper) and, following her suicide, Elizabeth Cameron, the young wife of a senator and part of the famous Sherman clan from Ohio. Henry Adams’s letters—thousands of them—demonstrate his struggles with depression, familial expectations, and reconciling with his unwanted widower’s existence. Offering a fresh window on nineteenth century US history, as well as a more “modern” and “human” Henry Adams than ever before, The Last American Aristocrat is a “standout portrait of the man and his era” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
The Last American Aristocrat
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Author : Nelson D. Lankford
language : en
Publisher: Little, Brown
Release Date : 1996-08-19
The Last American Aristocrat written by Nelson D. Lankford and has been published by Little, Brown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-08-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Recounts the life of the wealthy Virginian who served in the O.S.S. and as head of the Marshall Plan, ambassador to several European countries and to NATO, and chief of the first American mission in China
Henry Adams And The Making Of America
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Author : Garry Wills
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2007-08
Henry Adams And The Making Of America written by Garry Wills and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Bestselling author Wills showcases Henry Adams little-known but seminal studyof the early United States, and draws from it fresh insights on the paradoxesthat roil America to this day.
Paradise Lost
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Author : David S. Brown
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2017-05-22
Paradise Lost written by David S. Brown and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-22 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Pigeonholed as a Jazz Age epicurean and an emblem of the Lost Generation, Fitzgerald was at heart a moralist struck by the nation’s shifting mood and manners after WWI. Placing him among Progressives such as Charles Beard, Randolph Bourne, and Thorstein Veblen, David Brown reveals Fitzgerald as a writer with an encompassing historical imagination.
The Old Money Book 2nd Edition
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Author : Byron Tully
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-11-15
The Old Money Book 2nd Edition written by Byron Tully and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-15 with categories.
The Old Money Book details how anyone from any background can adopt the values, priorities, and habits of America's Upper Class in order to live a richer life. Expanded and updated for a post-pandemic world.
Aristocracy In America
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Author : Francis Joseph Grund
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1839
Aristocracy In America written by Francis Joseph Grund and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1839 with United States categories.
The First Populist
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Author : David S. Brown
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2022-05-17
The First Populist written by David S. Brown and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A timely, “solidly researched [and] gracefully written” (The Wall Street Journal) biography of President Andrew Jackson that offers a fresh reexamination of this charismatic figure in the context of American populism—connecting the complex man and the politician to a longer history of division, dissent, and partisanship that has come to define our current times. Andrew Jackson rose from rural poverty in the Carolinas to become the dominant figure in American politics between Jefferson and Lincoln. His reputation, however, defies easy description. Some regard him as the symbol of a powerful democratic movement that saw early 19th-century voting rights expanded for propertyless white men. Others stress Jackson’s prominent role in removing Native American peoples from their ancestral lands, which then became the center of a thriving southern cotton kingdom worked by more than a million enslaved people. A combative, self-defined champion of “farmers, mechanics, and laborers,” Jackson railed against East Coast elites and Virginia aristocracy, fostering a brand of democracy that struck a chord with the common man and helped catapult him into the presidency. “The General,” as he was known, was the first president to be born of humble origins, first orphan, and thus far the only former prisoner of war to occupy the office. Drawing on a wide range of sources, The First Populist takes a fresh look at Jackson’s public career, including the pivotal Battle of New Orleans (1815) and the bitterly fought Bank War; it reveals his marriage to an already married woman and a deadly duel with a Nashville dandy, and analyzes his magnetic hold on the public imagination of the country in the decades between the War of 1812 and the Civil War. “By assessing the frequent comparisons between Jackson and Donald Trump…the hope is that a fresh understanding of the divisive times of ‘the country’s original anti-establishment president’ might shed light on our own” (The Christian Science Monitor).
The Most Noble Adventure
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Author : Greg Behrman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007-08-07
The Most Noble Adventure written by Greg Behrman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-07 with History categories.
Traces America's four-year diplomatic efforts to help rebuild post-World War II Europe, an endeavor that involved a thirteen-billion-dollar plan and was heavily influenced by political factors.
Aristocracy In America From The Sketch Book Of A German Nobleman
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Author : Francis Joseph Grund
language : en
Publisher: London : R. Bentley
Release Date : 1839
Aristocracy In America From The Sketch Book Of A German Nobleman written by Francis Joseph Grund and has been published by London : R. Bentley this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1839 with Boston (Mass.) categories.
Aristocracy In America
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Author : Francis J. Grund
language : en
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Release Date : 2018-06-29
Aristocracy In America written by Francis J. Grund and has been published by University of Missouri Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-29 with History categories.
In Jacksonian America, as Grund exposes, the wealthy inhabitants of northern cities and the plantation South may have been willing to accept their poorer neighbors as political and legal peers, but rarely as social equals. In this important work, he thus sheds light on the nature of the struggle between “aristocracy” and “democracy” that loomed so large in early republican Americans’ minds. Francis J. Grund, a German emigrant, was one of the most influential journalists in America in the three decades preceding the Civil War. He also wrote several books, including this fictional, satiric travel memoir in response to Alexis de Tocqueville’s famous Democracy in America. Armin Mattes provides a thorough account of Grund’s dynamic engagement in American political life, and brings to light many of Grund’s reflections on American social and political life previously published only in German. Mattes shows how Grund’s work can expand our understanding of the emerging democratic political culture and society in the antebellum United States.