![]() ![]() Tourists want as few dates as possible what they want is poetry. It's a class in architecture, but never just that. Look at this buttress, this nave, this window. It starts as a tourist guide, if you will, Henry taking us first to Mont-Saint Michel and then to Chartres, the former a warm-up for the latter. There is a structure to it that is not really apparent until near the end. And his published views on Jews are not softer than Hitler's.īut I just want to talk about this book, which is unlike anything I have ever read. Some believe his adultery was a cause of his wife's suicide. And like the other Adamses, he would not have served a second term. If he were political, he might have been the smartest man ever to be President. Unlike John and John Quincy, he stayed there, at least scholastically, being an historian and 'intellectual'. Like his illustrious forebears, he went back in time, to Europe. There were plenty of troubled failures in the family, but not so Henry. Henry Adams, whose grandfather and great-grandfather were both American Presidents. The smartest guy in the room intimidating. ![]()
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