ADAMS, HENRY BROOKS

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Henry Brooks Adams
Harvard graduation photo, 1858

Henry Brooks Adams (February 16, 1838 – March 27, 1918; normally called Henry Adams) was an American journalist, historian, academic and novelist. He is best known for his autobiographical book, The Education of Henry Adams. He was a member of the Adams political family.

He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Charles Francis Adams Sr. (1807–1886) and Abigail Brooks (1808–1889) into one of the country's most prominent families.^[1] Both his paternal grandfather, John Quincy Adams, and great grandfather, John Adams, one of the most prominent among the Founding Fathers, had been U.S. Presidents, his maternal grandfather was a millionaire, and another great grandfather, Nathaniel Gorham, signed the Constitution.

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Writings


1876 (in collaboration with Henry Cabot Lodge, Ernest Young and J. L. Laughlin). Essays in Anglo-Saxon Law.
1879. Life of Albert Gallatin .
1879 (ed.). The Writings of Albert Gallatin (3 volumes).
1880. Democracy (novel)
1882. John Randolph.
1884. Esther: A Novel (facsimile ed., 1938, Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, ISBN 978-0-8201-1187-2).
1889-1891. History of the United States During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.
1891. Historical Essays.
1893. Tahiti: Memoirs of Arii Taimai e Marama of Eimee ... Last Queen of Tahiti (facsimile of 1901 Paris ed., 1947 Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, ISBN 978-0-8201-1213-8).
1904. Mont Saint Michel and Chartres.
1911. The Life of George Cabot Lodge (facsimile ed.. 1978, Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, ISBN 978-0-8201-1316-6).
1918. The Education of Henry Adams.
Adams, H. (1919). The Degradation of the Democratic Dogma. New York: Kessinger. ISBN 1-4179-1598-6.
1930-38. Letters. Edited by W. C. Ford. 2 vols.