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Henry Adams & the Southern Question

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From: The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
Date: 20060401
Author:Stanonis, Anthony

Henry Adams & the Southern Question * Michael O'Brien * Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005 * xiv, 202 pp. * $34.95

Michael O'Brien surveys the life of Henry Adams to contextualize one of the most influential statements concerning southern intellectualism. In The Education of Henry Adams (1918), Adams commented that "the Southerner had no mind; he had temperament." The phrase echoed across the region, influencing such figures as the Agrarians, William Alexander Percy, and Wilbur J. Cash. O'Brien explains why this statement by a New England native resonated with southerners.

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