Henry Adams and the Making of America

New York Times Bestseller: From a Pulitzer Prize winner, a “sparking and engaging book that everyone who cares about America’s history should read” ( The Washington Post ). In this book, one of today’s greatest historians offers a surprising new view of the greatest historian of the nineteenth century: Henry Adams. Garry Wills, author of Lincoln at Gettysburg , showcases Adams’s little-known but seminal study of the early United States and elicits from it fresh insights on the paradoxes that roi