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Henry Adams: The Middle Years, by Ernest Samuels. Boston's testy Brahmin found life pretty pleasant in those charmed years when his Eve-Marian ("Clover") Hooper-was in charge of the education of Henry Adams.
Henry Adams: The Middle Years, by Ernest Samuels. When Adams still had his Eve (Marian "Clover" Hooper), and the world was as sweet as this sourish Boston Brahmin ever found it.
PAUL S. SAMUELS Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
Henry Adams: The Middle Years, by Ernest Samuels. The second volume of a projected three-volume biography of the brilliant Boston Brahmin focused on the happy years when witty, vivacious Marian ("Clover") Hooper was Adams' Eve.
Life's Inside Story. In response to earlier criticism, Adams in his massive History denied himself those highly colored, stylistic tropes that Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. once called the "Macaulay flowers of literature." But if the book never enticed the readership he thought it deserved, it may have been...