| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.4

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Book Review

American Heretic: Theodore Parker and Transcendentalism. By Dean Grodzins. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xvi, 631 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2710-X.)

Theodore Parker's central role in the rise and development of New England Transcendentalism has not been sufficiently appreciated, despite the attention that such luminaries as Perry Miller and Henry Steele Commager have given him. Dean Grodzins has provided a discerning and comprehensive account of Parker's life and thought through 1846 (a sequel is in progress), the year he was installed as minister of the Boston congregation that had formed itself around him. Grodzins focuses on Parker's gradual and almost accidental emergence as a divisive and controversial figure as he came to represent the threat of modern infidelity to his Boston Unitarian ministerial colleagues. Their divided and somewhat hesitant efforts to distance themselves from his outspoken radicalism and Parker's unbending insistence on frankness in the pulpit and openness in ministerial fellowship fueled one of the formative controversies in United States intellectual history.

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