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The Concord Quartet: Alcott, Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau and the Friendship That Freed the American Mind

The Concord Quartet: Alcott, Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau and the Friendship That Freed the American Mind - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Samuel A. SchreinerPublish date:2006-08-01Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:Wiley (TP)ISBN-13:9780471646631ISBN-10:471646636UPC:9780471646631Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Literary FiguresSize:9.28 x 6.42 x 0.94 inchesWeight:1.1199Product ID:SCYDEW78TV

The Concord Quartet: Alcott, Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau and the Friendship That Freed the American Mind

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, the story of four extraordinary friends whose lives shaped a nation

"Beginning in the 1830s, coincidences that seem almost miraculous in...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Wiley (TP)ISBN-13:9780471646631ISBN-10:471646636UPC:9780471646631Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Literary FiguresSize:9.28 x 6.42 x 0.94 inchesWeight:1.1199Product ID:SCYDEW78TV
Samuel A. Schreiner Jr., a veteran journalist and former senior editor at "Reader's Digest," is the author of both novels and nonfiction, including "The Trials of Mrs. Lincoln, Henry Clay Frick: The Gospel of Greed," and "The Passionate Beechers: A Family Saga of Sanctity and Scandal That Changed America." He lives in Darien, Connecticut.
Publisher: Wiley (TP)

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