Few Americans can claim legitimate descent from Odysseus, but both Henry Adams and Lincoln Steffens can. The Education and the Autobiography proved that. Now, in addition to those works, we have a second volume of letters from Adams and two...
How are American historians, social scientists, and novelists to cope with the vastness and complexity of American democracy? Are they more bold than wise in attempting what European writers have rarely ventured—a composite picture of a...
