id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5413 Henry Adams - Wikipedia .html text/html 8486 977 72 Notable works The Education of Henry Adams, The History of the United States of America 1801–1817 His posthumously published memoir, The Education of Henry Adams, won the Pulitzer Prize and went on to be named by the Modern Library as the best English-language nonfiction book of the 20th century.[1] In 1910, Adams printed and distributed to university libraries and history professors the small volume A Letter to American Teachers of History proposing a "theory of history" based on the second law of thermodynamics and the principle of entropy.[39][40] This, essentially, states that all energy dissipates, order becomes disorder, and the earth will eventually become uninhabitable. The Letters of Henry Adams, Volumes 4–6: 1892–1918 (Edited by J.C. Levenson, Ernest Samuels and Charles Vandersee). The Letters of Henry Adams, Volumes 4–6: 1892–1918 (Edited by J.C. Levenson, Ernest Samuels and Charles Vandersee). ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5413.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5413.txt