The Political Emerson: Essential Writings on Politics and Social Reform

Author/Contributor(s):	Emerson, Ralph Waldo; Robinson, David M.
Publisher:	Beacon Press
Date:	9/23/2004
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) never considered himself a political thinker. And yet he rose to prominence during one of the most turbulent times in U.S. history. As a result, political questions grew in importance for him, becoming by the 1860s one of his chief concerns as a public intellectual. In The Political Emerson, David M. Robinson has brought together for the first time the best of Emerson's numerous writings on politics and social reform.