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The Concord Quartet: Alcott, Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau and the Friendship That Freed the American Mind

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We will walk on our own feet;

we will work with our own hands;

we can speak our own minds.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson, “”The American Scholar,”” 1837

From the start of transcendentalism and The united states’s intellectual renaissance within the 1830s, to the Civil War and beyond, the story of four abnormal friends whose lives shaped a nation

“”Beginning within 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 similar conviction that the soul had ‘inherent power to clutch the truth’ and that the truth would make men free of old constraints on thought and behavior. Along with Emerson, a philosopher, there used to be Amos Bronson Alcott, an educator; Henry David Thoreau, a naturalist and insurrection; 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 a long-lasting change in their nation’s direction.””
–From the Prologue

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