Henry Adams and the Southern Question Paperback / softback
by Michael O'Brien
Part of the Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures series
Paperback / softback
Description
Strictly, the Southerner had no mind; he had temperament.
He was not a scholar; he had no intellectual training; he could not analyze an idea, and he could not even conceive of admitting two.
This judgment, rendered in ""The Education of Henry Adams"", may be the most quoted of Adams' writings on the South.
It is, however, far from the only one of his beliefs that helped shape a national outlook on the region from the late antebellum period to the present.
Thinking about the South, says Michael O'Brien, was ""part of being an Adams."" Here O'Brien considers how Adams (grandson of President John Quincy Adams and great-grandson of President John Adams) looked at the region during various phases of his life.
At the same time, O'Brien explores the cultural and familial impulses behind those views and locates them in American intellectual history.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:216 pages, 14 b&w photos
- Publisher:University of Georgia Press
- Publication Date:30/04/2007
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- ISBN:9780820329567
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:216 pages, 14 b&w photos
- Publisher:University of Georgia Press
- Publication Date:30/04/2007
- Category:
- ISBN:9780820329567
