The Henry Adams Society

Recent Publications

Please send information about recent publications (2004 and later) to william.decker@okstate.edu.

Martin Eden and the Advent of Existentialism in American Literature, by James Burrill Angell. iUniverse, Inc. 2006

Henry Adams and the Need to Know, edited by William Merrill Decker and Earl N. Harbert. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 2005. Available through the University of Virginia Press. Contents: Paul A. Bové, "Henry Adams and the American System"; Richard A. Samuelson, "Henry Adams's Debt to John Adams"; Ormond Seavey, "Henry Adams and Henry Cabot Lodge: Teacher and Student: A Complicated Interaction"; Leslie Butler, "Investigating the 'Great American Mystery': Theory and Style in Henry Adams's Political Reform Moment"; Crosbie Smith and Ian Higginson, "'No traces of a beginning, no prospect of an end': Henry Adams, Charles Lyell, and the Politics of Uniformity"; Richard G. Androne, "Massachusetts to Virginia: Knowing Henry Adams's John Randolph"; Barry Maine, "Portraits and Privacy: Henry Adams and John Singer Sargent"; Joanne Jacobson, "Mr. Secrets: Henry Adams and the Breakdown of the Exemplary Tradition in American Autobiography"; Pierre Lagayette, "Henry Adams: Travel as Episteme"; Charles Vandersee, "Henry Adams's Unwritten American Travels"; John C. Orr, "'I measured her as they did with pigs': Henry Adams as Other"; Cindy Weinstein, "From True Woman to New Woman to Virgin"; William Merrill Decker, "A Martyr to the Disease of Omniscience"; J.C. Levenson, "Henry Adams, U.S. Grant, and Evolution: Practicing History in the Age of Darwin"

Henry Adams and the Southern Question, by Michael O'Brien. University of Georgia Press, 2005.

Henry Adams and the Making of America, by Gary Wills. Houghton Mifflin, 2005.