Philosophy and Civilization: An Introduction to the Life and Thought of E. M. Adams

Warren A. Nord, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

E. Maynard Adams was born in rural Virginia in 1919—though it might well have been the nineteenth century. He grew up on a tobacco farm, plowing the land as a teenager behind a team of mules. His first seven years of schooling were in a one-room schoolhouse that had no running water or electricity. In 1932, in the depths of the Great Depression, he had to drop out of school to help on the family farm and, as a result, had to repeat seventh grade.