Political Companion to Henry Adams

Henry Adams, great-grandson of John Adams, grandson of John Quincy Adams, and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Education of Henry Adams, is often overlooked as a serious political thinker. Many scholars have dismissed his writings as cynical and bitter while others regard him as a mere observer of American politics, accepting Adams's description of himself as a ""stable-companion to statesmen."" A Political Companion to Henry Adams suggests that he was far more. In this provocative collec