The book that changed America: how Darwin's theory of evolution ignited a nation

New York, New York: Viking Press (2017)
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Traces the impact of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" on a diverse group of writers, abolitionists, and social reformers, including Henry David Thoreau and Bronson Alcott, against a backdrop of growing tensions and transcendental idealism in 1860 America.

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QH365.O8.F85 2017

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9780525428336   0143130099

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