America's Bachelor Uncle : Thoreau and the American Polity

• Author: Taylor, Bob Pepperman.
• Ort / Verlag: Boston : : Houghton Mifflin Co.,, 2006.
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1996; 2006
• Ausgabe: Rev. ed.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Beschreibung: 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...