Question: Wendell Phillips Before the Concord Lyceum, is an essay style letter-to-the-editor written by Henry David Thoreau, an essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian, of which nationality? 
Sentence (from "Henry David Thoreau"): A leading transcendentalist, Thoreau is best known for his book "Walden", a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience" (originally published as "Resistance to Civil Government"), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.
Relevant evidence: No