American Heretic: Theodore Parker and Transcendentalism

by Dean Grodzins

Book Overview

Theodore Parker (1810-1860) was a powerful preacher who rejected the authority of the Bible and of Jesus, a brilliant scholar who became a popular agitator for the abolition of slavery and for women's rights, and a political theorist who defined democracy as "government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people--words that inspired Abraham Lincoln. Parker had more influence than anyone except Ralph Waldo Emerson in shaping Transcendentalism...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469622947
• ISBN13: 9781469622941
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 656 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"