{"product_id":"becoming-brownson-lynn-gordon-hughes-9780981640259","title":"Becoming Brownson: The Early Life of Orestes A. Brownson 1803-1829","description":"Orestes Augustus Brownson - religious and philosophical explorer, political theorist, pioneer of personal journalism, Transcendentalist, and champion of American Catholicism - lived a colorful and varied life. His contemporaries likened him to a weathervane, changing direction with every puff of wind. He preferred to think of himself as a seeker after truth, never contented with yesterday's answers. \u003cp\u003eThe roots of his varied career were sent down in his youth. He grew up, largely self-educated, in rural Vermont, encountered social inequality first-hand in the fashionable resort town of Ballston Spa, New York, and came of age as an apprentice journalist in the midst of controversy over the role of money and influence in politics. After a brief stint as a schoolteacher on the outskirts of Detroit - then a frontier settlement populated largely by French-speaking Catholics - he settled in New York as a Universalist minister and editor, only to be driven from his pulpit by fellow Universalists who considered him an \"infidel.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBecoming Brownson\u003c\/i\u003e is not only the story of Brownson's formative years, but an essential key to the problem of reconciling the many dimensions of his mature and fruitful life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lynn Gordon Hughes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0981640257\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780981640259\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Blackstone Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/11\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 218\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.46d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lynn Gordon Hughes","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48443766472959,"sku":"9780981640259","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a2341ea4-9c8b-4fe5-8fcd-f9023e606e37.jpg?v=1777207704","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/becoming-brownson-lynn-gordon-hughes-9780981640259","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}