Alcott, Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau and the Friendship That Freed the American Mind
by
Samuel A. Schreiner Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
"We will walk on our own feet;
we will work with our own hands;
we will speak our own minds."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The American Scholar," 1837
From the start of transcendentalism and America's intellectual renaissance in the 1830s, to the Civil War and beyond,...