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Representative Men : The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Vol IV
Representative Men The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson Vol IV Author:Andrew Delbanco "Emerson is a writer who grows restless if he stays too long with any proposition. And so, as one of his most intelligent modern readers, Judith Shklar, has pointed out, he built Representative Men around the principle of 'rotation,' which had become a political axiom in Jacksonian America--the idea that no man, no matter how imposing, sh... more »ould be accorded permanent authority. Representative Men honors the language of democracy in its very title."« less