America's Bachelor Uncle: Thoreau and the American Polity

by Bob Pepperman Taylor

Emphatically revisionist, Bob Pepperman Taylor reveals a Thoreau most people never knew existed. Contrary to conventional views, Taylor argues that Thoreau was one of America's most powerful and least understood political thinkers, a man who promoted community and democratic values, while being ever vigilant against the evils of excessive or illegitimate authority.

Still widely viewed as a remarkable nature writer but simplistic philosopher...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700608060
• ISBN13: 9780700608065
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"