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Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres

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Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres began as a gift for friends: Henry Adams (1838-1918), American historian and man of letters, printed it privately in 1904 and only allowed Houghton Mifflin to publish a trade edition in 1913, at the urging of the architect Ralph Adams Cram and under the sponsorship of the American Institute of Architects. Framed as a tour for an imaginary niece, the book reads the Norman abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel and the cathedral of Chartres as expressions of the unified faith of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, with the cult of the Virgin Mary at its center. Adams conceived it as the companion to The Education of Henry Adams, his study of modern multiplicity. Architects, medievalists, and travelers have kept it in print ever since.

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Henry Brooks Adams

Henry Brooks Adams was an American historian, novelist, essayist, and autobiographer whose writing tested political ideals against modern power. Democracy, also issued as Democracy: An American Novel, first appeared anonymously in 1880 and follows Madeleine Lee as her search for political understanding exposes Washington intrigue and corruption.