Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Prelude: Back to Beverly 9
Part I Becoming Henry Adams
Inheritance
1 Quincy 15
2 Party of One 21
3 The Madam 25
4 Heroes 31
5 Harvard 37
Education
6 Germany 47
7 Italy 55
8 Washington 63
9 London 71
10 The Correspondent 79
Illusions
11 Going South, Coming Home 89
12 The Race Question 95
13 Waiting on Another Washington 101
14 The High Road to Reform 109
15 Following the Money 113
Boston
16 The Professor 125
17 The Insurgent 133
18 Clover 139
19 Essays in Anglo-Saxon Law 147
20 Political Adieu 153
21 Filial Piety 161
22 Emancipation 167
Washington
23 Hearts Play 175
24 Gallatin 181
25 Democracy 187
26 Second Heart 195
27 Back to Bizarre 201
28 Between Science and Salvation 207
29 The New House 215
30 Empty Heart 221
Part II Performing Henry Adams
Flight
31 The Posthumous Life 233
32 Japan 237
33 The Historians Tale 245
34 Babes in Paradise 255
35 The First Law of Tame Cats 265
36 What the Sphinx Said 273
Fury
37 Chicago 283
38 The Gold-Bugs 289
39 "My Cuba" 297
40 The Tyranny of Science 303
41 The Felt Experience 309
42 Blame 313
Dynamo
43 The Jingo 327
44 Silent and Infinite Force 333
45 Lamb among Lions 337
46 In the Land of the Czars 343
Resonance
47 None but the Saints 351
48 Stranded 357
49 Bocjk of Illusions 365
50 There Was a Boy 373
51 To Finish the Game 379
52 The Rest in Silence 385
Acknowledgments 393
Notes 395
Index 425