Representative Men (Version 2)
Author: first_name: Ralph Waldo
last_name: Emerson
Language: English
Year: 1850

Seven Essays: his reasoning why and how great men have always been honored and necessary in our civilization, followed by six chapters dealing with, in order: Plato, Swedenborg, Montaigne, Shakspeare (sic), Napoleon and Goethe.<br><br>
Emerson was an old fashioned "Man of Letters". He was the head of the mid-19th century School of Transcendentalism.  Poetry, essay and book on Philosophy, human rights and religious and social rights.  - Summary by William Jones