Henry Adams

Henry Adams
fotografija iz 1885. godine koju je izradio William Notman
Biografske informacije
RođenjeHenry Brooks Adams
(1838-02-16)16. 2. 1838.
Boston, Massachusetts, SAD
Smrt27. 3. 1918. (dob: 80)
Washington, D.C., SAD
PseudonimFrances Snow Compton
Nacionalnostamerička
SupružnikMarian Hooper Adams
RodbinaJohn Quincy Adams (djed)
John Adams (pradjed)
Abigail Adams (prabaka)
John Quincy Adams II (brat)
Brooks Adams (brat)
Charles Francis Adams Jr. (brat)
Nathaniel Gorham (pradjed)
Peter Chardon Brooks (djed)
Obrazovanje
Alma materHarvard
Berlinski univerzitet
Zanimanjenovinar, historičar, književnik, profesor
Opus
Književne vrstehistorija, memoari
Temehistorija SAD
Jezikengleski
Nagrade
Pulitzerova nagrada za autobiografiju
1918 (posthumno) The Education of Henry Adams
Inspiracija
Od
  • John Stuart Mill, William Henry Letterman, Charles Page Thomas Moore, Abraham Lincoln, Charles Lyell, Francis Turner Palgrave, Charles Hale, Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton, James Milnes Gaskell, John Hay, John La Farge, Djevica Marija, Hebert Baxter Adams, Andrew Dickson White, George Bancroft, Charles Kendall Adams, Justin Winsor, William Frederick Poole, Henry Hobson Richardson, James Clark Maxwell, Rudolf Clausius, Hermann von Hemholtz, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
Na
  • Henry Cabot Lodge, Clarence King, James Donald Cameron, Ralph Adams Cram, Joseph Pulitzer, Alfred Thayer Mahan, Garry Wills

Henry Brooks Adams (16. februar 1838 - 27. mart 1918) bio je američki historičar i publicist, najpoznatiji po kapitalnom djelu The History of the United States of America 1801–1817 koje se smatra jednim od važnih izvora za historiju SAD na početku 19. vijeka, te po autobiografskoj knjizi The Education of Henry Adams za koju je posthumno bio nagrađen Pulitzerovom nagradom.

Adams se rodio u porodici Adams, jednoj od najuglednijih u SAD; pradjed John Adams je bio jedan od Očeva osnivača i predsjednik, isto kao i djed John Quincy Adams. Kao i njegov otac Charles Francis Adams, Sr., u mladosti se pripremao za političku karijeru i služio kao očev sekretar, te ga je nakon izbijanja građanskog rata oca, imenovanog za ambasadora u Ujedinjenom Kraljevstvu, pratio u London gdje je ocu pomagao u diplomatskoj i propagandoj aktivnosti. Tamo je međutim shvatio da ga umjesto politike daleko više zanima književnost i novinarstvo, kome je posvetio ostatak života.

Adamsove porodične veze su mu omogućile kako pristup arhivskim i drugim materijalima za njegovo kapitalno djelo, tako i to da stvaranje salona i kružoka kojima su pripadali neki od najistaknutijih intelektualaca njegovog doba. Adamas je nakon smrti supruge 1885. godine relativno veliki dio vremena provodio po putovanjima, posebno po Evropi, gdje je sa vremenom postao sve više fasciniran tehnološkim progresom i brzinom društvenih promjena, a što će posebno doći do izražaja u njegovoj knjizi The Education of Henry Adams. Adams, na čije je političke stavove bitno uticao Jon Stuart Mill i koji je bio vatreni zagovornik liberalne demokracije, je kasnije postao predmetom kritika zbog antisemitskih stavova u nekim do svojih djela.

Bibliografija

  • 1876. Essays in Anglo-Saxon Law (ko-autori: Henry Cabot Lodge, Ernest Young i J.L. Laughlin).
  • 1879. Life of Albert Gallatin.
  • 1879. The Writings of Albert Gallatin (urednik, tri toma).
  • 1880. Democracy: An American Novel.
  • 1882. John Randolph.
  • 1884. Esther: A Novel (faksimilsko izdanje 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 (8 volumes).
  • 1891. Historical Essays.
  • 1893. Tahiti: Memoirs of Arii Taimai e Marama of Eimee... Last Queen of Tahiti (faksimilsko izdanje u Parizu 1901. ghodine ed., 1947 Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, ISBN 978-0-8201-1213-8).
  • 1904. Mont Saint Michel and Chartres.
  • 1911. The Life of George Cabot Lodge (faksimisko izdanje 1978, Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, ISBN 978-0-8201-1316-6).
  • 1918. The Education of Henry Adams.
  • 1919. The Degradation of the Democratic Dogma.
  • 1930–38. Letters (izdanje W.C. Ford, dva toma).
  • 1982. The Letters of Henry Adams, Volumes 1–3: 1858–1892 (urednici J.C. Levenson, Ernest Samuels i Charles Vandersee).
  • 1988. The Letters of Henry Adams, Volumes 4–6: 1892–1918 (Edited by J.C. Levenson, Ernest Samuels and Charles Vandersee).

Izvori

Vanjske veze

Henry Adams na Wikimedijinoj ostavi
  • Djela čiji je autor Henry Adams na Projektu Gutenberg
  • Works by or about Henry Adams at Internet Archive
  • Works by Henry Adams at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
  • Works by Henry Adams, at Hathi Trust
  • Works by Henry Adams, at The University of Virginia American Studies Hypertext Project
  • The Letters of Henry Adams
  • Henry Adams, Globe Trotter in Space and Time Arhivirano 2014-06-21 na Wayback Machine-u
  •  Chisholm, Hugh, ur. (1911) „Adams, Henry” Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition 1 (11th izd.) Cambridge University Press 
  • Index entry for Henry Brooks Adams at Poets' Corner
  • The Broken Arch, an unpublished work by Lorrie Tussman exploring the theme of unity in Western civilization based on the writings of Henry Adams
  • "Writings of Henry Adams" from C-SPAN's American Writers: A Journey Through History
  • Henry Adams na Find a Grave
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Pulitzerova nagrada za biografiju ili autobiografiju
1917–1925
  • Laura E. Richards i Maud Howe Elliott, uz pomoć Florence Howe Hall (1917)
  • William Cabell Bruce (1918)
  • Henry Adams (1919)
  • Albert J. Beveridge (1920)
  • Edward Bok (1921)
  • Hamlin Garland (1922)
  • Burton J. Hendrick (1923)
  • Michael I. Pupin (1924)
  • M. A. Dewolfe Howe (1925)
1926–1950
  • Harvey Cushing (1926)
  • Emory Holloway (1927)
  • Charles Edward Russell (1928)
  • Burton J. Hendrick (1929)
  • Marquis James (1930)
  • Henry James (1931)
  • Henry F. Pringle (1932)
  • Allan Nevins (1933)
  • Tyler Dennett (1934)
  • Douglas S. Freeman (1935)
  • Ralph Barton Perry (1936)
  • Allan Nevins (1937)
  • Odell Shepard/Marquis James (1938)
  • Carl Van Doren (1939)
  • Ray Stannard Baker (1940)
  • Ola Elizabeth Winslow (1941)
  • Forrest Wilson (1942)
  • Samuel Eliot Morison (1943)
  • Carleton Mabee (1944)
  • Russel Blaine Nye (1945)
  • Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1946)
  • William Allen White (1947)
  • Margaret Clapp (1948)
  • Robert E. Sherwood (1949)
  • Samuel Flagg Bemis (1950)
1951–1975
  • Margaret Louise Coit (1951)
  • Merlo J. Pusey (1952)
  • David J. Mays (1953)
  • Charles A. Lindbergh (1954)
  • William S. White (1955)
  • Talbot Faulkner Hamlin (1956)
  • John F. Kennedy (1957)
  • Douglas S. Freeman, John Alexander Carroll i Mary Wells Ashworth (1958)
  • Arthur Walworth (1959)
  • Samuel Eliot Morison (1960)
  • David Donald (1961)
  • Leon Edel (1963)
  • Walter Jackson Bate (1964)
  • Ernest Samuels (1965)
  • Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1966)
  • Justin Kaplan (1967)
  • George Frost Kennan (1968)
  • Benjamin Lawrence Reid (1969)
  • Thomas Harry Williams (1970)
  • Lawrence Thompson (1971)
  • Joseph P. Lash (1972)
  • W. A. Swanberg (1973)
  • Louis Sheaffer (1974)
  • Robert Caro (1975)
1976–2000
  • R. W. B. Lewis (1976)
  • John E. Mack (1977)
  • Walter Jackson Bate (1978)
  • Leonard Baker (1979)
  • Edmund Morris (1980)
  • Robert K. Massie (1981)
  • William S. McFeely (1982)
  • Russell Baker (1983)
  • Louis R. Harlan (1984)
  • Kenneth Silverman (1985)
  • Elizabeth Frank (1986)
  • David J. Garrow (1987)
  • David Herbert Donald (1988)
  • Richard Ellmann (1989)
  • Sebastian de Grazia (1990)
  • Steven Naifeh i Gregory White Smith (1991)
  • Lewis B. Puller (1992)
  • David McCullough (1993)
  • David Levering Lewis (1994)
  • Joan D. Hedrick (1995)
  • Jack Miles (1996)
  • Frank McCourt (1997)
  • Katharine Graham (1998)
  • A. Scott Berg (1999)
  • Stacy Schiff (2000)
2001–2025
  • David Levering Lewis (2001)
  • David McCullough (2002)
  • Robert Caro (2003)
  • William Taubman (2004)
  • Mark Stevens i Annalyn Swan (2005)
  • Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin (2006)
  • Debby Applegate (2007)
  • John Matteson (2008)
  • Jon Meacham (2009)
  • T. J. Stiles (2010)
  • Ron Chernow (2011)
  • John Lewis Gaddis (2012)
  • Tom Reiss (2013)
  • Megan Marshall (2014)
  • David I. Kertzer (2015)
  • William Finnegan (2016)
  • Hisham Matar (2017)