The book that changed America how Darwin's theory of evolution ignited a nation
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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New York, New York :
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC,
[2017]
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