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Democracy: An American Novel
Henry Adams
ISBN 13: 9780375760587
Publisher: Modern Library
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Softcover
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An immediate bestseller upon its publication in 1880, the anonymously penned Democracy prompted widespread speculation and guessing games as to its author’s identity. It is the story of Mrs. Lightfoot Lee, a society widow, and Silas Ratcliffe, the most influential member of the Senate, who, throughout the novel, pursues Mrs. Lee while at the same time battling her for power. Set in Washington in the 1870s, Democracy presents a scathing and incisive look at the intricate inner workings of politics and corruption that remains relevant today.
This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the 1880 first edition and includes a contemporary review from The Atlantic Monthly.
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"The too-easy irony of the situation makes one hesitate to use Henry Adams against himself--to instance the enduring quality of his own work in contradiction of his belief that American society was deteriorating to the point where he could no longer speak to it. Only the urbanity of 'Democracy', the constant play of wit around its serious theme, possibly suggests, by its contrast to the deadly earnestness of the present-day political novel, that we may indeed have traveled a certain distance down the road from grace, as Adams defined grace. For the rest, almost seventy-five years after it was first published, Adams' novel is as relevant to our time as the current Presidential campaigns."
Diana Trilling, New York Times Book Review, 10/26/52
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