NP but Adams....new book..

[Mark Kohut]

A Political 
Companion to Henry Adams (Political Companions to Great American Authors) - 280 
pages 

$32.00

Henry Adams, great-grandson of John Adams, grandson of John Quincy Adams, and 
author of the Pulitzer Prize--winning The Education of Henry Adams, is often 
overlooked as a serious political thinker. Many scholars have dismissed his 
writings as cynical and bitter while others regard him as a mere observer of 
American politics, accepting Adams's description of himself as a 
"stable-companion to statesmen." A Political Companion to Henry Adams suggests 
that he was far more.
In this provocative collection, editor Natalie Fuehrer Taylor presents works by 
some of the leading political thinkers in America today -- scholars who 
challenge conventional judgments about the life and work of Henry Adams and 
credit him with revealing key insights into the nation's evolving democracy.
A Political Companion to Henry Adams fills a long-standing gap in scholarship 
that has devoted little attention to Adams's political thought, offering a 
nuanced appreciation of his musings on the human condition and political life at 
the eve of the twentieth century.
 
 
Someday there will be a Political Companion to Thomas Pynchon, I predict.....
politics much subtler than James Wood has written....................