Political Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson
From before the Civil War until his death in 1882, Ralph Waldo Emerson was renowned -- and renounced -- as one of the United States'' most prominent abolitionists and as a leading visionary of the nation''s liberal democratic future. Following his death, however, both Emerson''s political activism and his political thought faded from public memory, replaced by the myth of the genteel man of letter...
From before the Civil War until his death in 1882, Ralph Waldo Emerson was renowned -- and renounced -- as one of the United States'' most prominent abolitionists and as a leading visionary of the nation''s liberal democratic future. Following his death, however, both Emerson''s political activism and his political thought faded from public memory, replaced by the myth of the genteel man of letter...