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A list of key readings about Henry Adams.
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Works

  • Adams, Henry. History of the United States of America [During the Administrations of Jefferson and Madison]. 9 vols. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1889-91.

1889-1891 Edition:

1909 Edition:

1921 Edition:

History: 1t Jefferson, vol. I: http://books.google.com/books?id=Z_x2AAAAMAAJ
History: 1t Jefferson, vol. II: http://books.google.com/books?id=Xv52AAAAMAAJ
History: 2d Jefferson, vol. I: http://books.google.com/books?id=pvwAAAAAYAAJ
History: 2d Jefferson, vol. II: http://books.google.com/books?id=ufwAAAAAYAAJ
History: 1t Madison, vol. I: http://books.google.com/books?id=hPwAAAAAYAAJ
History: 1t Madison, vol. II: http://books.google.com/books?id=f_wAAAAAYAAJ
History: 2d Madison, vol. I: not available on google books.
History: 2d Madison, vol. II: http://books.google.com/books?id=4gIBAAAAYAAJ
History: 2d Madison, vol. III: http://books.google.com/books?id=QA13AAAAMAAJ


  • Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams. [Printed privately, 1906; first published with the subtitle An Autobiography.] Ed. by Henry Cabot Lodge[1]. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1918. Many later editions. The Education of Henry Adams
  • Adams, Henry. Democracy, Esther, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, The Education of Henry Adams [ http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Esther-Michel-Chartres-Education/dp/0940450127/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214704124&sr=8-2 excerpt and text search, Library of America edition (1983)]
  • Adams, Henry. Henry Adams: Selected Letters. ed. by Ernest Samuels, (1992). 587 pp.
    • Adams, Henry. The Letters of Henry Adams. Ed. by Jacob C. Levenson, et al. 6 vols. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1982-88.
    • Letters of Henry Adams. Vol. 1: 1858-1892. (1982). 574 pp.
    • Letters of Henry Adams. Vol. 2: 1858-1892. (1982). 645 pp.
    • Letters of Henry Adams. Vol. 3: 1858-1892. (1982). 638 pp.
    • The Letters of Henry Adams. Vol. 4: 1892-1918. 1988. 736 pp.
    • The Letters of Henry Adams. Vol. 5: 1892-1918. 1988. 726 pp.
    • The Letters of Henry Adams. Vol. 6: 1892-1918. 1988. 861 pp.
  • Adams, Henry. Sketches for the "North American Review". Ed. by Edward Chalfant. Shoe String, 1986. 262pp
  • James, Henry and Adams, Henry. The Correspondence of Henry James and Henry Adams, 1877-1914. ed. by George Monteiro, (1992). 107 pp.

Biographies

  • Chalfant, Edward. A Biography of Henry Adams. 3 vols.
    • Vol. 1: Both Sides of the Ocean: His First Life, 1838-1862. Archon Books, 1982. 475pp
    • Vol. 2: Better in Darkness: His Second Life, 1862-1891. Archon Books, 1994. 929pp
    • Vol. 3: Improvement of the World: His Last life, 1891-1918. Archon Books, 2001.
  • Samuels, Ernest. The Young Henry Adams. Harvard University Press, 1948.
  • Samuels, Ernest. Henry Adams: The Middle Years. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1958.
  • Samuels, Ernest. Henry Adams: The Major Phase. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1964.
    • Samuels, Ernest. Henry Adams. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1989, 504pp; abridged edition
  • O'Toole, Patricia. The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends, 1880-1918. (1990). 459 pp.
  • Tehan, Arline Boucher. Henry Adams in Love: The Pursuit of Elizabeth Sherman Cameron. (1983). 307 pp.

Specialized studies

  • Blackmur, R. P. Henry Adams. (1980). 354 pp. literary criticism
  • Bush, Clive. Halfway to Revolution: Investigation and Crisis in the Work of Henry Adams, William James, and Gertrude Stein. (1991). 509 pp.
  • Byrnes, Joseph F. The Virgin of Chartres: An Intellectual and Psychological History of the Work of Henry Adams. (1981). 194 pp.
  • Contosta, David R. Henry Adams and the American Experiment. (1980). 159 pp.
  • Decker, William Merrill, and Earl N. Harbert, eds. Henry Adams and the Need to Know (2005) , 384pp; essays by scholars
  • Decker, William Merrill. The Literary Vocation of Henry Adams. (1990). 323 pp.
  • Dusinberre, William. Henry Adams: The Myth of Failure. (1980). 250 pp.
  • Harbert, Earl N., ed. Critical Essays on Henry Adams. (1981). 262 pp.
  • Harbert, Earl N. The Force So Much Closer Home: Henry Adams and the Adams Family. (1977). 224 pp.
  • Jacobson, Joanne. Authority and Alliance in the Letters of Henry Adams. (1992). 176 pp.
  • Kaplan, Harold. Power and Order: Henry Adams and the Naturalist Tradition in American Fiction. (1981). 146 pp.
  • Kaledin, Eugenia. The Education of Mrs. Henry Adams. (1981). 306 pp.
  • O'Brien, Michael. Henry Adams and the Southern Question. (2005). 201 pp.
  • Rowe, John Carlos. Henry Adams and Henry James: The Emergence of a Modern Consciousness. (1976) . 254 pp.
  • Simpson, Brooks D. The Political Education of Henry Adams. (1996). 154 pp.
  • Wasserstrom, William. The Ironies of Progress: Henry Adams and the American Dream. (1984). 269 pp.
  • Wills, Garry. Henry Adams and the Making of America (2007), a close re-reading of his history of the Jefferson and Madison administrations excerpt and text search
  • Wilson, Edmund. Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War (1966) excerpt and text search
  • Young, James P. Henry Adams: The Historian as Political Theorist. (2001). 328 pp.