The Higher Law

Informationen zum Autor Howard Zinn is one of the America's most widely read historians. He is the author of many books and plays, including the classic A People's History of the United States . Klappentext These thirteen selections from the polemical writings of Thoreau represent every stage in his 22 years of active writing and serve as a microcosm of his literary career. Zusammenfassung Includes thirteen selections from the polemical writings of Henry D Thoreau that represent various stages in his twenty-two years of active writing. This title offers a microcosm of Thoreau's literary career. It allows the reader to achieve a full sense of Thoreau's evolution as a writer and thinker. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction by Howard Zinn ix The Service 3 Paradise (To Be) Regained 19 Herald of Freedom 49 Wendell Phillips Before Concord Lyceum 59 Resistance of Civil Government 63 Slavery in Massachusetts 91 A Plea for Captain John Brown 111 Martyrdom of John Brown 139 The Last Days of John Brown 145 Life without Principle 155 Reform and the Reformers 181 Index by Paul O. Williams 199

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Henry David Thoreau
Edited by Wendell Glick
With an introduction by Howard Zinn

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• Authors: Henry Thoreau, Henry D. Thoreau, Elizabeth Witherell
• Assisted by: Henry Glick (Editor), Wendell Glick (Editor), Glick Wendell (Editor), Howard Zinn (Introduction)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.06.2004
• EAN: 9780691118765
• ISBN: 978-0-691-11876-5
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 203 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Princeton Classic Editions; Writings of Henry D. Thoreau; Princeton Classic Editions; Writings of Henry D. Thoreau
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Literary essays