Comments on: Henry Adams and the Making of America by Garry Wills http://calitreview.com/128 Book reviews, essays, and author interviews. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:39:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: patrick j walsh http://calitreview.com/128/comment-page-1#comment-2022 patrick j walsh Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:06:09 +0000 http://calitreview.com//non-fiction-reviews/henry-adams-and-the-making-of-america-by-garry-wills/#comment-2022 correction - The last sentence above should read - "Mr. Wills is in the strange position of professing to be a Catholic, but not accepting what the Church teaches. This is a bit like being a member of a labor union but being against collective bargaining" patrick walsh correction –

The last sentence above should read -

“Mr. Wills is in the strange position of professing to be a Catholic, but not accepting what the Church teaches. This is a bit like being a member of a labor union but being against collective bargaining”

patrick walsh

]]> By: patrick j walsh http://calitreview.com/128/comment-page-1#comment-849 patrick j walsh Thu, 21 Jun 2007 00:44:17 +0000 http://calitreview.com//non-fiction-reviews/henry-adams-and-the-making-of-america-by-garry-wills/#comment-849 Just started reading Wills's book. I think he is correct on Adams as superb historian, but think his interpretation of Adams' position on Jefferson is not correct. Adams is critical of Jefferson who he sees as overcome by events -" a grasshopper". Henry Adams was not an ideologue I suspect not a nationalist of the Wills/Lincoln type. Mr Wills in an intellectual who often turns ideas to suit his tastes. He does the same in in his purported Catholicism. Being Catholic is accepting on reason what the Church magisterium teaches. Mr Wills does do so and is in the strange position of professing what he does not believe kind of like belonging to a labor union but being against collective bargaining. Just started reading Wills’s book. I think he is correct on Adams as superb historian, but think his interpretation of Adams’ position on Jefferson is not correct.

Adams is critical of Jefferson who he sees as overcome by events -” a grasshopper”. Henry Adams was not an ideologue I suspect not a nationalist of the Wills/Lincoln type.

Mr Wills in an intellectual who often turns ideas to suit his tastes. He does the same in in his purported Catholicism. Being Catholic is accepting on reason what the Church magisterium teaches. Mr Wills does do so and is in the strange position of professing what he does not believe kind of like belonging to a labor union but being against collective bargaining.

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