Reinterprets important works of the social criticism of Emerson and Thoreau as being based in defense of community.

A comprehensive, contextual presentation of all aspects—social, political, and economic—of slavery in the United States, from the first colonization through

A penetrating literary and philosophical examination of major figures in the development of American intellectual culture, from Emerson to Santayana

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