Ernest Samuels (1903–1996)
Auteur de Henry Adams: The Middle Years
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Œuvres de Ernest Samuels
Rare HENRY ADAMS, THE MIDDLE YEARS by SAMUELS 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Democracy/Esther/Mont Saint Michel and Chartres/The Education of Henry Adams (1983) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions — 479 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1903-05-19
- Date de décès
- 1996-02-12
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Evanston, Illinois, USA
- Études
- University of Chicago
- Professions
- lawyer
literary scholar
biographer
teacher
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Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 8
- Aussi par
- 3
- Membres
- 303
- Popularité
- #77,624
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 5
- ISBN
- 15
The heart of the book is the author’s sensitive treatment of the suicide of Adams’s wife Clover. Adams considered his own life to have ended with hers, although he not only survived her by nearly 40 years, but also continued his prodigious literary output and travelled the world. His first trip after her death, an extensive stay in Japan shortly after that country opened itself to Western visitors, is described as a flight from the self.
Samuels also excels in his analysis of Adams’s works. In addition to his magnum opus, a nine-volume treatment of the Jefferson and Madison administrations, these include biographies of Albert Gallatin and John Randolph, as well as two novels, which he published anonymously. The penultimate chapter, which treats the Jefferson-Madison masterpiece, also explores Adams’s deterministic philosophy of history, which stood in ironic contrast to his own elitist views and his awareness of belonging to one of the leading families in the nation.
One can readily see why this has been praised as a sterling example of the art of biography. A very good read.… (plus d'informations)