Emerson: The Mind on Fire. Robert D. Richardson Jr., University of California Press, 1996.
 
Biography
ISBN: 0520206894
 
Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in the history of American thought, religion, and literature. The vitality of his writings and the unsettling power of his example continue to influence us more than a hundred years after his death. Now Robert D. Richardson Jr. brings to life an Emerson very different from the old stereotype of the passionless Sage of Concord. Drawing on a vast amount of new material, including correspondence among the Emerson brothers, Richardson gives us a rewarding intellectual biography that is also a portrait of the whole man.
 
Secure binding with clean pages and very light cover edge wear. About 9 x 6 with 684 pages. Softcover book.