ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a biography of Henry Adams who was a great grandchild and grandchild of two former presidents of the United States. But Henry Adams, belonging to a later generation, coming to maturity at the time of the Civil War, found himself in an age uncongenial to the leadership of such men as his ancestors. The great Titanic traveling on its maiden voyage from England to the United States, was sliced open by an iceberg and sank on April 14, 1912. This happening was an unusual shock to Henry Adams. He had booked passage for the ship’s return voyage to England. When he began to write his own letters laboriously again, his handwriting more than any other trait showed the seriousness of his illness. It was shaky and straggling now, the world formed with difficulty, but the thought, as tart and as indelibly Henry Adams as ever.
