The Concord Quartet
Alcott, Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau and the Friendship That Freed the American Mind
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The Concord Quartet
Alcott, Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau and the Friendship That Freed the American Mind
About This Book
"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, " 1837From 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
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- Also by Samuel A. Schreiner Jr.
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- Chapter 1 - A Homecoming
- Chapter 2 - A Meeting of Minds
- Chapter 3 - A New Voice
- Chapter 4 - A Man Who âLooks Answersâ
- Chapter 5 - âA Beacon Fire of Truthâ
- Chapter 6 - A Parting of the Ways
- Chapter 7 - A Presidentâs Man
- Chapter 8 - A Transcendental Martyr
- Chapter 9 - A Time for Dying
- Chapter 10 - A Long Good-bye
- Bibliography
- Index