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• Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) lived in an era of remarkable change and recorded the implications of the period with great perception.
• Henry's mother was the daughter of one of Boston's wealthiest men; his father was the son of John Quincy Adams, sixth president of the United States, and the grandson of John Adams, second president. The boy grew up in a household which contained Boston's largest private library and in which politics and history were perpetually present.
• the 7 years he spent with his father in England unquestionably contributed greatly to his education.
• Adams returned to the United States in 1868 and settled in Washington, where he reported on the political scene for the Nation and for some newspapers.
• His brilliant, acerbic articles were soon making him famous and men in and near the White House infamous.