From 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 In Three Roads Back , Robert Richardson, the author of magisterial biographies of Ralph Waldo...
In this book, Robert Richardson tells us the personal stories of these three authors: the death of a wife, or of a child who was just beginning to live, or of a younger brother... Extremely painful deaths. But the important thing in this text is not in the acceptance, but in...