| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.2

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Peter S. Field. Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Making of a Democratic Intellectual. (American Intellectual Culture.) Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield. 2002. Pp. xiv, 255. $35.00.

As its subtitle indicates, Peter S. Field's study of Ralph Waldo Emerson is a closely woven tapestry of quotations and commentary depicting a thirty-five-year journey to self-discovery. Five of Field's seven chapters cover the years between Emerson's birth in 1803 and his delivery of the Harvard Divinity School Address, his climactic declaration of intellectual independence, in the summer of 1838. The two remaining chapters describe Emerson's partial and somewhat tardy conversion to the antislavery cause and his postwar canonization as America's premier public intellectual. The center of Field's account is Emerson's measured, intellectually strenuous, and often personally painful search for a meaningful vocation, a self-imposed task that involved persisting financial problems, mounting disagreements with fellow clergy, dimming insights and persisting doubts, and a series of tragic family deaths. . . .

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