Volume 50, Number 5 · March 27, 2003
On Henry Adams's 'Democracy'
By Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
The novelist insisted on total ano-nymity, instructed his publisher to bring the book out on April Fools' Day 1880, and took care to be in Europe on publication day. Democracy: An American Novel[1] created a sensation and was a best seller in the United States and England. The author was not disclosed for another thirty-five years. He was Henry Adams.
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