Back to the roots! (or: new novel, good old Adams)

[Paul Mackin]

Good find for Kai. I had already started reading the chapter but  
hadn't yet come to the quote (near the end) when Doug's url arrived.  
Always better to have your text machine searchable.

By the  way the url is identical to the 1918 edition which  I was   
reading from.  (only difference is the lines are extended out  
horizontally making the pages too short looking)

Wonder if the new book will include the Panic (depression)  of '93 as  
well as the world's fair?

Adams is very quaint.  Wonder how he interpreted that question about  
where America was driving to?

Adam's seems always careful to acknowledge his amateur standing  
whatever the topic is.

P.



On Jul 18, 2006, at 12:54 PM, Dave Monroe wrote:

> Definitely.  If that blurb didn't mention Adams, The
> Devil in the White City did.  SOMEBODY did. I knew I
> should've followed up on that.  Kai for the kill ...
>
> But speaking of (2) and/or (3) ...
>
> http://www.bartleby.com/159/22.html
>
> http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/hadams/eha22.html
>
> --- davemarc <davemarc at panix.com> wrote:
>
>> I think Kai could be on to something here....
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Kai Frederik Lorentzen <kflorentzen at web.de>
>>
>>> The twentysecond (!) chapter of "The Education
>>> of Henry Adams" is titled:
>>
>>> "Chicago (1893)".
>>
>>> In there it says: "Chicago asked in 1893 for the
>>> first time the question whether the American
>>> people knew where they were driving. Adams
>>> answered, for one, that he did not know, but
>>> would try to find out" ....
>
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