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SOURCE: The Atlantic
11/9/2021
Emerson Never Practiced the Self-Reliance He Preached
by Mark Greif
Historian Robert A. Gross's new "The Transcendentalists and Their World" sets the famous experiments in living of Emerson and Thoreau in the social context of the town of Concord, through which the writers understood the shocks of modernization.
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