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Review Of The Next President: The Unexpected Beginnings And Unwritten Future Of America's Presidents By Kate Messner, Katie E. Gosman
Review Of The Next President: The Unexpected Beginnings And Unwritten Future Of America's Presidents By Kate Messner, Katie E. Gosman
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Henry Adams: An Education In Autobiography, Marcellus Richie
Henry Adams: An Education In Autobiography, Marcellus Richie
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This essay will begin by breaking down Henry Adams’s starting sentence in his autobiography word by word, piece by piece – pondering its meanings and permutations in the context of subsequent chapters of this iconic memoir. The essay will then consider whether Adams’s Education should still be regarded as a classic of American autobiography or seen merely as an irrelevant and out-of-date artifact. In a nation radically transformed since Adams’s time, does the book still deserve its high flung reputation? In other words, which of the images cited above is most relevant to The Education: an image of optimistic youth …