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Emerson: Political Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)

1 review

Cambridge University Press, 2008

Wonderful
Kenneth Sacks does a superior job of bringing Emerson's most important works to life, thus helping the reader understand the essence of the man and his impact on future generations of political thinkers. Bravo!

Diodorus Siculus and the First Century

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Kenneth S. Sacks

Princeton Univ Pr, 1990

The "GREATEST" OF THE "GREAT"
Alexander the Great, was born on or around July 20, 356 B.C.E., and is my favorite personality to read about in history. To me he is the whole package general, statesman, conqueror, and philosopher. The smartest man who ever lived, Aristotle, tutored him. Alexander conquered more of the known world than any other figure in history, accomplishing all this before he dies at the ripe old age of 33. ...

Understanding Emerson: "The American Scholar" and His Struggle for Self-Reliance

2 reviews
Kenneth S. Sacks

Princeton University Press, 2003

America's Scholar
In 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 -- 1882) delivered an oration destined to become one of the prime sources of the American vision at Harvard University before Phi Beta Kappa. In "The American Scholar", Emerson set out a path for American thought that would distinguish it from the thought of Europe. But creating a uniquely "American" scholar was among the least of Emerson's purposes. In his ...