| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

William Merrill Decker and Earl N. Harbert, editors. Henry Adams and the Need to Know. (Studies in American History and Culture, number 8.) Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society with the University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville. 2005. Pp. xvi, 383. $50.00.

The fourteen essays in this collection are the revised proceedings of a 2001 conference at the Massachusetts Historical Society. The volume has no discernible theme, though the editors have scrambled bravely for one. William Merrill Decker and Earl N. Harbert speak of "our need to know Adams," to know "the relation of present to past," and to know "the world as something other than ourselves" (p. vii). This is a broad and wise rubric, since it licenses anything that might take an adventurous essayist's fancy.

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