David S. Brown teaches history at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania. He is the author of eight books, including In the Arena: Theodore Roosevelt in War, Peace, and Revolution; A Hell of a Storm: The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War; The First Populist: The Defiant Life of Andrew Jackson; The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams; and biographies of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Richard Hofstadter.
"Marvelous...provides a compelling account of America's transformation in the space of one man's lifetime, from a Republic where the Adams name meant everything, to an industrialized behemoth that had left him behind." -The New York Times Book Review "Thoroughly researched and gracefully written...[Henry Adams] was more comfortable on the sidelines than he ever would have been in the arena. And, as Mr. Brown reveals, Adams was a brilliant observer." -The Wall Street Journal "The book proceeds less day by day than idea by idea, theme by theme, and this approach works particularly well." -Boston Globe "I vicariously enjoyed the varied life of Henry Adams, America's greatest memoirist." -Ed Glaeser, The Wall Street Journal's "Books of the Year" "Well-written and enthralling . . . [Brown] makes the case for Henry as the most interesting of the Adamses." -Chronicle
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