![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is unfortunate, as the book is truly excellent. Yet few seem to be aware of the book and fewer still to have read it. The Education of Henry Adams actually won the Pulitzer Prize in 1919. It was also named the best book of the 20th century by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. Washington’s Up From Slavery, and Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style were also further down.īefore any of these great works, the editors chose The Education of Henry Adams, a literary autobiography (told in the third person) of the great-grandson of John and Abigail Adams. Though more well known, The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe, Booker T. (These were #2 and #3 on the list, respectively.) Nor did James Watson’s The Double Helix, Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, or Principia Mathematica by Whitehead and Russell take the top spot. When the publisher of the Modern Library series chose one book as the top non-fiction book of the 20th century, it was not William James’s The Varieties of Religious Experience or Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own. ![]()
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