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Henry Adams at Ground Zero

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From: The Virginia Quarterly Review
Date: 20020401
Author:Pinsker, Sanford

I was not particularly surprised when The Education of Henry Adams, surely one of the oddest and most important of American books, recently headed up the Modern Library series' ranking of 100-best works of English language non-fiction. Such lists are designed to get tongues wagging about books-and, of course, buying them. On one level it is a relatively harmless parlor game, rather like heated discussions about whether Mohammed Ali was a better fighter than Joe Lewis or Bessie Smith a better singer than Billie Holiday. On another level, the penchant for lists seem quintessentially "American." ...

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