(“It is good enough,” Henry James noted, “to make it a pity it isn’t better.”) He also published his anonymous novel “Democracy,” a satire of the capital and its players that remains the best fiction ever written about American politics, even if that is faint praise. There was in both the same air of self-contained strength.”Īdams eventually left Harvard for Washington, D.C., a city that was evolving itself, getting bigger and slimier as power concentrated at the federal level.
One of those students, a future professor himself, remembered sitting there, looking at the wall and seeing a portrait of his teacher’s ancestor, John Quincy: “Henry was small, short, bald, with a pointed clipped beard. Adams excelled in the classroom, seizing his students’ attention and then prodding them to disagree, to debate. Harvard and its president, Charles Eliot, led this shift, and in 1870 Eliot recruited Adams to teach history.
Once the war ended, a new revolution hit higher education, which pivoted from clerics and classics to science and specialization.
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