American Heretic
Subtitle: Theodore Parker and Transcendentalism
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: January 17, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 720
ISBN-13: 9780807827109
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Biography: general; Unitarians; c 1800 to c 1900; Political; U.S. History - Constitutional Period To Civil War (1789-1860); Unitarianism; History; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Unitarian Universalism; Biography/Autobiography; USA; Religious; Historical - U.S.; Biography; Religious Studies; History/United States: General; American Studies; Parker, Theodore; Religion / Philosophy; United States - 19th Century; 1810-1860; Parker, Theodore,; Transcendentalism
First sentence: "On the 24th of August, 1810, early on a hot, sweltering morning, I came into this world of joys and sorrows," wrote Theodore Parker forty-nine years later, shortly before his death.