Full name: Emerson among the Eccentrics: A Group Portrait

Author: Carlos Baker Year: 1995 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies, History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780140260298 9780670866755 0140260293 067086675X

Ralph Waldo Emerson's circle included many of the most brilliant and original minds of his day: Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Amos Bronson Alcott, and Margaret Fuller. Together this eccentric group helped establish Concord, Massachusetts, as a mecca for progressive thinking, including women's rights and religious tolerance.Carlos Baker's indefatigable research included reviewing the journals and correspondence of all the central characters to reconstruct, minutely, entire days. The result is a vivid and textured mosaic not just of the group's interactions but of their daily lives -- what they ate, wore, discussed, read, and cared about. All of this brings Emerson vividly to life in his quotidian relationships -- as young man and old; father, husband, and son; preacher, lecturer, and editor; farmer, guest, and friend. It is by far the most intimate portrait we have of the Sage of Concord and his remarkable entourage. Similar books: Margaret Fuller by Megan Marshall The Passion of Ayn Rand by Barbara Branden Simone de Beauvoir by Deirdre Bair Like a Fiery Elephant by Jonathan Coe Beautiful Shadow by Andrew Wilson Anne Morrow Lindbergh by Susan Hertog Soldier by Karen DeYoung Savage Art by Robert Polito The World Is What It Is by Patrick French A Lot to Ask by Hazel Holt The Life of Raymond Chandler by Frank MacShane A Tragic Honesty by Blake Bailey Simenon by Pierre Assouline Anais by Noel Riley Fitch Howard Hughes by Donald L. Barlett There's More to Life Than This by Theresa Caputo The Duck Commander Family by Willie Robertson To Selena, with Love by Chris Perez The Life and Legend of Chris Kyle by Michael J. Mooney The Women of Duck Commander by Kay Robertson