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Young, James P. Henry Adams: the Historian as Political Theorist.(Book Review)

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From: History: Review of New Books
Date: 20020322
Author:Grimsted, David

Young, James P. Henry Adams: The Historian as Political Theorist Lawrence: University of Kansas Press 328 pp., $35.00, ISBN 0-7006-1087-1 Publication Date: June 2001

James P. Young, a professor emeritus in political science at Binghamton University, offers a thoughtful study of the writings, work by work, of Henry Adams. He handles Adams's ideas with appreciative good sense and clarity and well-taken use and modulation of the best-known commentators on Adams's oeuvre. Young's conclusion that Adams's theory was "a none too consistent mixture of civic humanism, liberalism and ...

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