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A revelatory portrait of the wife of historian Henry Adams evaluates her seemingly thriving existence in Gilded Age Washington at the sides of such luminaries as Henry James and H. H. Richardson, investigating her whirlwind obsession with photography and her mysterious suicide. 40,000 first printing.