The Transcendentalists and Their World av Robert A. Gross

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<p><b>One of <i>The Wall Street Journal</i>''s 10 best books of 2021</b><br><b>One of <i>Air Mail</i>''s 10 best books of 2021</b><br><b>Winner of the Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize<br></b><br>In the year of the nation¿s bicentennial, Robert A. Gross published <i>The Minutemen and Their World</i>, a paradigm-shaping study of Concord, Massachusetts, during the American Revolution. It won the prestigious Bancroft Prize and became a perennial bestseller. Forty years later, in this highly anticipated work, Gross returns to Concord and explores the meaning of an equally crucial moment in the American story: the rise of Transcendentalism.<br><br><i>The Transcendentalists and Their World</i> offers a fresh view of the thinkers whose outsize impact on philosophy and literature would spread from tiny Concord to all corners of the earth. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Alcotts called this New England town home, and Thoreau drew on its life extensively i