A Political Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Part of the Political Companions to Great American Authors Series)
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From before the Civil War until his death in 1882, Ralph Waldo Emerson was renowned-and renounced-as one of the United States' most prominent abolitionists and as a leading visionary of the nation's liberal democratic future. Following his death, however, both Emerson's political activism and his political thought faded from public memory, replaced by the myth of the genteel man of letters and the detached sage of individualism. In the 1990s, scholars rediscovered Emerson's antislavery writings
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0813147409
ISBN13:9780813147406
Release Date:August 2014
Publisher:University Press of Kentucky
Length:500 Pages
Weight:1.60 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"
Age Range:18 years and up
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