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Ralph Waldo Emerson
People/Characters: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Abraham Lincoln (The American Presidents Series: The 16th President, 1861-1865)
by
George S. McGovern
Advice My Parents Gave Me: and Other Lessons I Learned from My Mistakes
by
Rodolfo Costa
The Age of Jackson
by
Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr.
America's First Dynasty : The Adamses, 1735--1918
by
Richard Brookhiser
American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thore
by
Susan Cheever
American Painting of the Nineteenth Century: Realism, Idealism, and the American Experience With a New Preface
by
Barbara Novak
American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman
by
F. O. Matthiessen
American Transcendentalism: A History
by
Philip F. Gura
April 1865: The Month That Saved America
by
Jay Winik
The Bloodiest Day: The Battle of Antietam (Civil War)
by
Ronald H. Bailey
Brother Against Brother (Civil War)
by
Time-Life Editors
Charles Darwin: The Power of Place: Volume II of a Biography
by
Janet Browne
The Civil War
by
Geoffrey C. Ward
The Concord Quartet: Alcott, Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau and the Friendship That Freed the American Mind
by
Samuel A. Schreiner Jr.
The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot
by
Russell Kirk
Creating the John Brown legend : Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, Child and Higginson in defense of the raid on Harpers Ferry
by
Janet Kemper Beck
The Dante Club
by
Matthew Pearl
Daughter of Boston: The Extraordinary Diary of a Nineteenth Century Woman
by
Caroline Healey Dall
Emerson among the Eccentrics: A Group Portrait
by
Carlos Baker
Emerson's Essays
by
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emerson: The Mind on Fire
by
Robert D. Richardson Jr.
The Five of Hearts : an intimate portrait of Henry Adams and his friends 1880 - 1918
by
Patricia O'Toole
The Flowering of New England
by
Van Wyck Brooks
Genius : a mosaic of one hundred exemplary creative minds
by
Harold Bloom
A History of the Supreme Court
by
Bernard Schwartz
How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age
by
Theodore Schick
John Hay: From Poetry to Politics
by
Tyler Dennett
A Journey into the Transcendentalists' New England (ArtPlace series)
by
R. Todd Felton
The Justice from Beacon Hill: The Life and Times of Oliver Wendell Holmes
by
Liva Baker
Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates that Defined America
by
Allen C. Guelzo
mentioned
Lincoln's New Salem
by
Benjamin P. Thomas
The Lost Summer Of Louisa May Alcott
by
Kelly O'Connor McNees
Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women (John MacRae Books)
by
Harriet Reisen
March
by
Geraldine Brooks
Margaret Fuller: From Transcendentalism to Revolution (Radcliffe Biography Series)
by
Paula Blanchard
The Margaret Ghost : A Transcendentalist Love Story
by
Carole Braverman
Mark Twain: A Life
by
Ron Powers
Mr. Emerson's Cook
by
Judy Schachner
Mr. Emerson's Wife
by
Amy Belding Brown
The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism
by
Megan Marshall
A People's History of Christianity: The Other Side of the Story
by
Diana Butler Bass
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Days of Encounter
by
John McAleer
1803-1882
The Remarkable Mrs. Ripley: The Life of Sarah Alden Bradford Ripley
by
Joan W. Goodwin
A Republic of Mind and Spirit
by
Catherine L. Albanese
A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses
by
Anne Trubek
Stealing the General: The Great Locomotive Chase and the First Medal of Honor
by
Russell S. Bonds
The Trouble with Tom: The Strange Afterlife and Times of Thomas Paine
by
Paul Collins
Walden
by
Henry David Thoreau
We Are Lincoln Men : Abraham Lincoln and His Friends
by
David Herbert Donald
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Recommendations
Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
by
John Matteson
Self-Reliance and Other Essays
by
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind
by
Robert D. Richardson Jr.
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
by
James M. McPherson
Same series:
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
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The Oxford History of the United States
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The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Modern Library Classics)
by
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
by
Henry David Thoreau
Ralph Waldo Emerson : Essays and Lectures
by
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walden and Other Writings
by
Henry David Thoreau
The American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War
by
Bruce Catton
Lincoln
by
David Herbert Donald
The Poe Shadow
by
Matthew Pearl
The Known World
by
Edward P. Jones
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
by
James L. Swanson
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
by
Henry David Thoreau
The Transcendentalists: An Anthology
by
Perry Miller
People/Characters authors (49)
Catherine L. Albanese
Ronald H. Bailey
Carlos Baker
Liva Baker
Diana Butler Bass
Janet Kemper Beck
Paula Blanchard
Harold Bloom
Russell S. Bonds
Carole Braverman
Richard Brookhiser
Geraldine Brooks
Van Wyck Brooks
Amy Belding Brown
Janet Browne
Susan Cheever
Paul Collins
Rodolfo Costa
Caroline Healey Dall
Tyler Dennett
David Herbert Donald
Ralph Waldo Emerson
R. Todd Felton
Joan W. Goodwin
Allen C. Guelzo
Philip F. Gura
Russell Kirk
Megan Marshall
F. O. Matthiessen
John McAleer
Kelly O'Connor McNees
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Patricia O'Toole
Matthew Pearl
Ron Powers
Harriet Reisen
Theodore Schick
Bernard Schwartz
Benjamin P. Thomas
Henry David Thoreau
Anne Trubek
Geoffrey C. Ward
Jay Winik
Time-Life Books
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Robert D. Richardson
Samuel Agnew Schreiner
George McGovern
Judy Schachner
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was an American essayist, philosopher, and poet.
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