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The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams. This week on The World in Time, Lewis H. Lapham and Brown discuss Adams’ early years and his “posthumous life” after the death of his wife, his most influential writings, and his many friendships with familiar figures of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. ....
Who was Henry Adams? Print this article At age 20, Henry Adams (1838-1918) aspired to become president of the United States. His hopes were not realized. He planned to study law, but that didn’t work out either. He was a middling student at Harvard University, often bored with his courses. Yet because of his writing ability, he was asked to give the prestigious Class Day Oration. It was a sunny, blisteringly hot day in June of 1858 when Adams, robed in a black gown, stepped up to the podium to give his oration. Instead of delivering bromides, he denounced Boston’s commercial and materialistic bent. “Man,” Adams railed, “has reduced the universe to a machine.” And Harvard “had done its best to dilute all wonder, mystery, and experimentation from the human experience.” ....