The People of Concord: American Intellectuals And Their Timeless Ideas - Brossura

Brooks, Paul

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ISBN 10: 1555914691 ISBN 13: 9781555914691

Casa editrice: Fulcrum Pub, 2006

Riassunto

In 1846, Concord, Massachusets was in the midst of transition. Shaping the future were great forces and distant events: the Mexican-American War and tides of nationalism, expansion to the West and the spread of slavery, the industrial revolution and the first steam-assisted travel to Europe. Nearer to home, the first rail connection of Concord to Boston would change forever the economic and cultural conditions of the town. It was the people of Concord, however, that made this particular place in history so significant. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, Bronson Alcott and 13 year old daughter Louisa were some of the legendary and influential people to emerge from the Athens of America.

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Paul Brooks was editor-in-chief at Houghton Mifflin for twenty years. He was the editor of the Roger Tory Peterson Field Guides and of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. He received the John Muir Medal, the top national award given by the Sierra Club, for his environmental efforts and the Hal Borland Award of the Audobon Society. Mr. Brook's books include Roadless Area (winner of the John Burroughs Medal), Speaking for Nature, The View from Lincoln Hill,and The House of Life: Rachel Carson at Work.

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• Editore: Fulcrum Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1555914691
• ISBN 13: 9781555914691
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 239