America's Bachelor Uncle : Thoreau and the American Polity

• Author: Taylor, Bob Pepperman.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Houghton Mifflin Co.,, 2006.
• Any de publicació: 1996; 2006
• Edició: Rev. ed.
• Idioma: English
• Descripció física: 1 online resource (vi, 374 p. large print)

Emphatically revisionist, Bob Pepperman Taylor reveals a Thoreau most people never knew existed. Contrary to conventional views, Taylor argues that Thoreau was one of America's most powerful and least understood political thinkers, a man who promoted community and democratic values, while being...