Democracy

Name: Democracy
Author: Henry Adams

by Henry Adams

Novel satirizing Washington politics and power through a female protagonist

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Henry Adams

Henry Adams was a historian and man of letters whose autobiographical The Education of Henry Adams is one of the great works of American prose. His novel Democracy remains a razor-sharp satire of Washington political life.

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