{"product_id":"three-roads-back-how-emerson-thoreau-and-william-james-responded-to-the-greatest-losses-of-their-lives-hardcover","title":"Three Roads Back: How Emerson, Thoreau, and William James Responded to the Greatest Losses of Their Lives - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert D. Richardson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMegan Marshall\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom their acclaimed biographer, a final, powerful book about how Emerson, Thoreau, and William James forged resilience from devastating loss, changing the course of American thought\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThree Roads Back\u003c\/i\u003e, Robert Richardson, the author of magisterial biographies of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and William James, tells the connected stories of how these foundational American writers and thinkers dealt with personal tragedies early in their careers. For Emerson, it was the death of his young wife and, eleven years later, his five-year-old son; for Thoreau, it was the death of his brother; and for James, it was the death of his beloved cousin Minnie Temple. Filled with rich biographical detail and unforgettable passages from the journals and letters of Emerson, Thoreau, and James, these vivid and moving stories of loss and hard-fought resilience show how the writers' responses to these deaths helped spur them on to their greatest work, influencing the birth and course of American literature and philosophy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn reaction to his traumatic loss, Emerson lost his Unitarian faith and found solace in nature. Thoreau, too, leaned on nature and its regenerative power, discovering that \"death is the law of new life,\" an insight that would find expression in \u003ci\u003eWalden\u003c\/i\u003e. And James, following a period of panic and despair, experienced a redemptive conversion and new ideas that would drive his work as a psychologist and philosopher. As Richardson shows, all three emerged from their grief with a new way of seeing, one shaped by a belief in what Emerson called \"the deep remedial force that underlies all facts.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn inspiring book about resilience and the new growth and creativity that can stem from devastating loss, \u003ci\u003eThree Roads Back\u003c\/i\u003e is also an extraordinary account of the hidden wellsprings of American thought.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert D. Richardson\u003c\/b\u003e (1934-2020) was the author of the acclaimed biographies \u003ci\u003eWilliam James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHenry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eEmerson: The Mind on Fire. \u003c\/i\u003eHe was a recipient of the Bancroft and Francis Parkman prizes and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. \u003cb\u003eMegan Marshall\u003c\/b\u003e is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eMargaret Fuller: A New American Life\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 7.1 x 4.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 24, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53336942379373,"sku":"9780691224305","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1001\/0823\/9213\/files\/a09kL2VJbWZYWkcwSkNPemhuMWVqUT09.webp?v=1778922749","url":"https:\/\/cleanfreaklab.myshopify.com\/products\/three-roads-back-how-emerson-thoreau-and-william-james-responded-to-the-greatest-losses-of-their-lives-hardcover","provider":"Clean Freak Lab","version":"1.0","type":"link"}