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HENRY ADAMS: THE MIDDLE YEARS (514 pp.)-Ernesf Samuels-Belknap-Harvard ($7.50).
The Education of Henry Adams is not the best place to learn about the education of Henry Adams. The "ironic hindsights" and "note of self-mockery" that dominate that famed autobiography were, in effect, argues Author Ernest Samuels, the verbal spitballs of old age that Adams was throwing at his...
Adams: The Middle Years is Volume II, Biographer Samuels, professor of English at Northwestern, is sifting out, with notably nonacademic readability, what Adams actually felt and achieved despite his self-proclaimed "failure." During the 13-year-period (1877-90) covered by this book. Adams produced two biographies, two novels, and...
The miracle of the middle years that even Adams did not expect, according to Samuels, was his remarkably happy marriage at 34 to 28-year-old Marian ("Clover") Hooper, a witty, independent-minded fellow Brahmin. Characteristically, Adams says not a word of wife or marriage in the Education, possibly because...
To Adams, grubbing in the archives of the State Department to research his historical work, Marian and her salon had the tonic appeal of the latter-day businessman's double martini before dinner. After Marian's suicide, grief-stricken Henry Adams drastically curtailed his social activities, often spoke...