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Emerson: The Mind on Fire

By : Robert D. Richardson Jr.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in the history of American thought, religion, and literature. The vitality of his writings and the unsettling power of his example continue to influence us more than a hundred years after his death. Now Robert D. Richardson Jr. brings to life an Emerson very different from the old stereotype of the passionless Sage of Concord. Drawing on a vast amount of new material, including correspondence among the Emerson brothers, Richardson gives us a rewarding intellectual biography that is also a portrait of the whole man.These chapters present a young suitor, a grief-stricken widower, an affectionate father, and a man with an abiding genius for friendship.The great spokesman for individualism and self-reliance turns out to have been a good neighbor, an activist citizen, a loyal brother. Here is an Emerson who knew how to laugh, who was self-doubting as well as self-reliant, and who became the greatest intellectual adventurer of his

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Author : Robert D. Richardson Jr.

Pages : pages

Publisher : Audible Studios

Language : eng

ISBN-10 : B009N9WYT4

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