4 Quotes About The Education Of Henry Adam
Henry Adams was born November 13, 1838 in Quincy, Massachusetts. He was the oldest child in a family of six, in a time when most people had a single child. He was the oldest of four sons and three daughters. He had a sister who died in infancy and two brothers who died young
He had another brother who would become president of Harvard University, and his nephew, Charles Francis Adams, was the ambassador to Great Britain during World War II. He attended Harvard College from 1858 to 1860 and then entered Harvard Law School from 1860 to 1862. He graduated with an AB degree in 1863 and became a lawyer in Boston in 1863.
In 1864 he travelled to Europe for four months where he studied art at the Louvre museum in Paris and the British Museum in London. In 1865 he visited England again, travelling through Scotland and visiting his grandfather, John Quincy Adams, then serving as the American Ambassador to Prussian since 1864. He published "The Education of Henry Adams" (1918) during this time.
It describes his life growing up as an only child in his large family during the mid-nineteenth century. The book is considered one of the first modern books about American history, set against the backdrop of American history itself.
