Emerson: The Mind on Fire, by Robert D. Richardson, Jr.
A masterpiece. Emerson is a benchmark in American biographies.
Devour the vulnerable and era-changing details about the man who was the leading voice of intellectual culture in the U.S.
As an essayist and poet, Emerson spearheaded the Transcendentalist movement, spoke for the rights of the individual (including opposing slavery), and famously mentored Henry David Thoreau, who wrote Walden while living on Emerson’s land. He was the most influential writer of 19th-century America, and Richardson’s critically-acclaimed biography more lives up to that legacy. A tour de force.
Narrated by audiobook legend Michael McConnohie, who many of you know and love from his narration for Barry Eisler and Stuart Kaminsky's books.
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