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Henry Brooks Adams. Premio Pulitzer nel 1919. Henry Brooks Adams ( Boston, 16 febbraio 1838 – Washington, 27 marzo 1918) è stato uno scrittore e storico statunitense .
Henry Brooks Adams (February 16, 1838 – March 27, 1918) was an American historian and a member of the Adams political family, descended from two U.S. presidents. As a young Harvard graduate, he served as secretary to his father, Charles Francis Adams, Abraham Lincoln's ambassador to the United Kingdom.
Scrittore e storico statunitense (Boston 1838 - Washington 1918), discendente di John Quincy Adams e di John Adams, ambedue presidenti degli Stati Uniti. Assisté giovane all'impresa dei Mille e la descrisse in una serie di lettere al Boston Courier.
Henry Brooks Adams (1838 – 1918), scrittore, storico e giornalista statunitense.
Adams, Henry Brooks. Storico statunitense (Boston 1838-Washington 1918). Viaggiò a lungo per studio in Europa, collaborando anche col padre Charles Francis, ministro a Londra; insegnò (1870-77) alla Harvard University.
Adams introduced ideas and feelings that persisted for decades. Intellectually, he searched for the equations that would unlock history and society, contemplated the nature of democratic institutions and the power of scientific laws, and flirted with mysticism.
Henry Adams was a historian, man of letters, and author of one of the outstanding autobiographies of Western literature, The Education of Henry Adams. Adams was the product of Boston’s Brahmin class, a cultured elite that traced its lineage to Puritan New England. He was the great-grandson of John.
