Henry adams ,sophisticated  boston   Brahmins and descendant of two famous united states president ,was America ,s most brilliant nineteenth century historian here is a comprehensive selection from his works  through which the reader can fathom one of the keenest minds in our literary  heritage .

Henry adams  wrote a sweeping masterly chronicle of the administration  of Thomas  Jefferson  and james  Madison ,famous  for his provocative, searching   theories  adams  masterpieces the education

Of hemry  adams and mont  -saint –michel and chartres  confrasted the simplified  values  of medieval

Europe with the complex  ethics of the  twentieth  century,with  amazing  clairvoyarce he predicted the dangerous  spread   of  materialism in  America  today.