{"product_id":"the-concord-quartet-samuel-a-schreiner-9780471646631","title":"The Concord Quartet: Alcott, Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau and the Friendship That Freed the American Mind","description":"We will walk on our own feet; \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ewe will work with our own hands; \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e we will speak our own minds.\u003cbr\u003e--Ralph Waldo Emerson, \"\"The American Scholar,\"\" 1837 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the start of transcendentalism and America's intellectual renaissance in the 1830s, to the Civil War and beyond, the story of four extraordinary friends whose lives shaped a nation \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\"Beginning in the 1830s, coincidences that seem almost miraculous in retrospect brought together in Concord as friends and neighbors four men of very different temperaments and talents who shared the same conviction that the soul had 'inherent power to grasp the truth' and that the truth would make men free of old constraints on thought and behavior. In addition to Emerson, a philosopher, there was Amos Bronson Alcott, an educator; Henry David Thoreau, a naturalist and rebel; and Nathaniel Hawthorne, a novelist. This book is the story of that unique and influential friendship in action, of the lives the friends led, and their work that resulted in an enduring change in their nation's direction.\"\"\u003cbr\u003e--From the Prologue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Samuel A. Schreiner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0471646636\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780471646631\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wiley (TP)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.12lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.28h x 6.42w x 0.94d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/15\/2006 pg. 87\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2006 pg. 87\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2006 pg. 28","brand":"Samuel A. Schreiner","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44046980317439,"sku":"9780471646631","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_88663c4a-16db-4bef-a486-519d7f4a51b0.jpg?v=1684987594","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-concord-quartet-samuel-a-schreiner-9780471646631","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}