The book that changed America : how Darwin's theory of evolution ignited a nation
(2017)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
576.82/FULLER,R
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, New York : Viking, [2017]
DESCRIPTION
x, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780525428336, 052542833X :, 9780525428336 (hardcover), 052542833X (hardcover)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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