American Bloomsbury : Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mar

Susan Cheever is in awe of the monumental achievements of the group known as the Transcendentalists -Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Louisa May Alcott- but her personal, evocative narrative removes them from their dusty pedestals and provides a lively account of their longins, jealousies, and indiscretions.