Modern Library The education of henry adams: an autobiography, paperback/henry adams

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams, said Gore Vidal.

He was remarkably prescient about the coming horrors.

His political ideals shaped by two presidential ancestors--great-grandfather John Adams and grandfather John Quincy Adams--Henry Adams was one of the most powerful and original minds to confront the American scene from the Civil War to the First World War.