A friend loaned me a pleasant little book by Susan Cheever about the Concord of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, the Alcotts and others. It’s called “American Bloomsbury” which is too clever by half. First because it is anachronistic. If the two … Continue reading
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Ever since she was young, my daughter has been interested in history. It might partly be my fault. Before elementary school in the morning we used to watch Professor Eugen Weber’s Western Civ lectures on public TV, and our vacations … Continue reading