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Henry Adams: A Biography, by Elizabeth Stevenson. 425 pp. New York: The Macmillan Company. $6.00

Henry Adams, to this reviewer’s mind, was the finest product of the most distinguished single family that figures in the American political tradition, and the profoundest American sage of his era (from the Civil War to World War I). He was not always right on the trend of events in philosophic analysis in American and world history; but he was right oftener than the next fellow, include ing the next Adams.

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Henry Adams: A Biography, by Elizabeth Stevenson. 425 pp. New York: The Macmillan Company. $6.00

Henry Adams, to this reviewer’s mind, was the finest product of the most distinguished single family that figures in the American political tradition, and the profoundest American sage of his era (from the Civil War to World War I). He was not always right on the trend of events in philosophic analysis in American and world history; but he was right oftener than the next fellow, include ing the next Adams.