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“Shall We Go to Rome?”—The Last Days of Henry Adams

Susan Hanssen
Publisher: Journals Gateway
The New England Quarterly (2013) 86 (1): 5–28.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/TNEQ_a_00255
Published: 01 March 2013
Abstract
Henry Adams had a stroke upon hearing the news of the sinking of the Titanic and the Republican Party in 1912, but this was not the decline of the house of Adams from Puritanism to pessimism. Rather, Adams became America's first and most famous prickly Thomist– “Porcupinus Angelicus.”
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