The Ironies of Progress: Henry Adams and the American Dream

by William Wasserstrom and Professor William Wasserstrom

In firm agreement with Henry Steele Commager's observation that "Henry Adams illuminates, better than any of his contemporaries," the course of American history, William Wasserstrom appraises the force of Adams's mind in styling, dramatizing, and embodying a postmodern myth of disintegration and chaos. Focusing on Adams and analyzing literature that reviews the myth of disin­tegration, Wasserstrom records the de­cline of the doctrine of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809311550
• ISBN13: 9780809311552
• Release Date: April 1984
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"