Significant Book of 1907:
Henry Adams's The Education of Henry Adams
THE EDUCATION OF HENRY ADAMS invariably ranks high among any list of the best books of the century. A historian and member of a distinguished family that included two presidents of the United States, Adams here recounts his own and the country's development from 1838, the year of his birth, through the Civil War and the ensuing economic expansion, up to 1905.
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Significant Music of 1907:
Alexander Scriabin's Poem of Ecstasy
The first performance of the POEM OF ECSTASY, a sensuously lush -- almost aphrodisiacal -- orchestral tone poem by the Russian composer Alexander Scriabin, took place in this year.
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