The Concord Quartet: Alcott, Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau and the Friendship That Freed the American Mind - Samuel A. Schreiner Jr. - Books - Wiley - 9780471646631 - August 1, 2006
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The Concord Quartet: Alcott, Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau and the Friendship That Freed the American Mind 1st edition

Samuel A. Schreiner Jr.

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The Concord Quartet: Alcott, Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau and the Friendship That Freed the American Mind 1st edition

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 retrospect brought together in Concord as friends and neighbors four men of very different temperaments and talents who shared the same conviction that the soul had 'inherent power to grasp the truth' and that the truth would make men free of old constraints on thought and behavior. In addition to Emerson, a philosopher, there was Amos Bronson Alcott, an educator; Henry David Thoreau, a naturalist and rebel; and Nathaniel Hawthorne, a novelist. This book is the story of that unique and influential friendship in action, of the lives the friends led, and their work that resulted in an enduring change in their nation's direction.""
--From the Prologue

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released August 1, 2006
ISBN13 9780471646631
Publishers Wiley
Pages 256
Dimensions 160 × 240 × 20 mm   ·   508 g
Language English