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Portrait of a Failure

Daniel Aaron, 25 January 1990

Henry Adams 
by Ernest Samuels.
Harvard, 504 pp., £19.95, November 1989, 9780674387355
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The Letters of Henry Adams: Vols I-VI 
edited by J.C Levenson, Ernest Samuels, Charles Vandersee and Viola Hopkins-Winner.
Harvard, 2016 pp., £100.75, July 1990, 0 674 52685 6
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... wise and artful book has been gently administered. Samuels is one of a team of scholars headed by J.C. Levenson (himself the author of an innovative study of Adams) who after an arduous stretch have brought out Adams’s letters – more than four thousand pages of them – in six impeccably edited and annotated ...

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