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 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. In 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 Walden.
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." An inspiring book about resilience and the
new growth and creativity that can stem from devastating loss,
Three Roads Back is also an extraordinary account of the hidden
wellsprings of American thought.
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