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

by Samuel A. Schreiner Jr.

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0471646636

ISBN13:9780471646631

Release Date:August 2006

Publisher:Wiley (TP)

Length:256 Pages

Weight:1.22 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"

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19th Century Arts & Literature Authors Biographical Biographies Biographies & History Biography & History History History & Surveys Modern (16th-21st Centuries)

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