Carlos Baker. First edition. Dust Jacket: Very Good+ An unclipped dust jacket with original price on inside flap. Jacket design by Mary E. O'Boyle. Hardcover: Near Fine. New York: Viking, 1996. Black cloth with beautiful gold lettering and design on spine. No writing or marking in the book, 608 pp. includes black and white photos.
Baker's work is a "joy to read with its insights on a national character and national ambition during a period of American life that still needs study and reappraisal. It alters one's sense of Emerson the man; it revives one's appreciation of Emerson the observer and thinker. And it confirms what seems to me the mission of any biographer: to make readers aware that a country that loses touch with its past---its cultural as well as its historic past---is a country that has lost touch with itself." ~James R. Mellow
"A wonderfully ample and passionate portrait that makes Emerson, one of America's greatest thinkers, seem exhilaratingly human. By exploring the Concord Sage's relationships with a fascinating array of people, Carlos Baker brings alive Emerson and his world in refreshing new ways." ~David S. Reynolds
