"Highly Recommended" - Library Journal

Expert interviews, dramatic recreations at Walden Pond, and readings from major works are used to explore the evolution of the American Transcendentalists Movement in the early 19th century. The lives and writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Henry David Thoreau are examined to discover the spiritual foundations for Americas first authentic literary voice. Experts include: Larry Buell, Joan Von Mehren, Wesley Mott, Joel Myerson and Robert D. Richardson, Jr.

Jeffrey Hyatt reenacts several passages from Walden and Civil Disobedience at Thoreau's Walden Pond cabin site.

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