Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. TABLE OF CONTENTS V
3. CONTRIBUTORS VI
4. INTRODUCTION 1
5. 1. Lies, Silence, and Truth in the Writings of Henry Adams 8
6. 2. Henry Adams and Politics 23
7. 3. Henry Adams and the American Century 38
8. 4. Religion as Culture: Henry Adams's Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres 48
9. 5. Henry Adams's Anthropological Vision as American Identity 57
10. 6. Henry Adams and the American Artists: The Two Mansions 76
11. 7. A Dissenting View of John Quincy Adams 88
12. 8. Henry Adams and the European Tradition of the Philosophy of History 99
13. 9. Failure or Success? Our Legacy from Henry Adams 108
14. Index of Names 121