The Education of Henry Adams
by Henry Adams
710 pages~12 hrs
“The more he learned, the less he understood.”
Witness the birth of the modern world through the eyes of a man who feels left behind by history. This biting, Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir follows a brilliant mind as he discovers that traditional wisdom is no match for the chaos of the industrial age.
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