The Jeffersonian Transformation
By Henry Adams
Introduction by Garry Wills
By Henry Adams
Introduction by Garry Wills
Category: U.S. History
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$14.95
Sep 19, 2006 | ISBN 9781590172155
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Praise
"In his History of the United States of America during the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson, first published in 1889 and completed three years later by his History of the United States of America during the Administrations of James Monroe, Adams drew on this mix of disillusioned lucidity and cautious hopefulness to show just how America became America. Although often invoked, the "History," is less often read. That is a great pity. Adams’s work is a masterpiece, the closest thing to an American epic we possess…readers daunted by its bulk may prefer to begin with The Jeffersonian Transformation: Passages from the History, edited and introduced by Garry Wills." —The New York Sun
"New York Review Books Classics has published an excellent abridgment of Henry Adams’ nine-volume "History of the United States of America During the Administrations of Jefferson and Madison" as The Jeffersonian Transformation. Garry Wills contributes an introduction, but whoever labored to produce the abridgment is uncredited. No matter. The word "magisterial" is tossed around whenever anybody writes a ponderous tome with any claim to definitive status. But Adams’ book truly deserves the term, both for his grasp of the overall, and his prose, which has a gorgeous rolling cadence." —Austin American-Statesman
Table Of Contents
INTRODUCTION
The Mystery of the Missing Masterpiece
PART ONE: America in 1800
Physical and Economical Conditions
Popular Characteristics
Intellect of New England
Intellect of the Middle States
Intellect of the Southern States
American Ideals
PART TWO: America in 1817
Economical Results
Religious and Political Thought
Literature and Art
American Character
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