March 12, 2013
MARGARET FULLER:
A New American Life
by Megan Marshall
The award-winning author of
The Peabody Sisters looks at the
trailblazing life of Margaret Fuller:
Thoreau’s editor, Emerson’s friend,
daring war correspondent,
and tragic heroine. read more
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"Margaret Fuller is as seductive as it is impressive...[and] pushes Ms. Marshall into the front rank of American biographers."
—DWIGHT GARNER, NEW YORK TIMES
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"A gifted storyteller . . . Marshall excels at creating a sense of intimacy—with both her subjects and her reader."
—Judith Thurman, The New Yorker
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"Spectacularly detailed and compassionate...a magnificent biography of a revolutionary thinker, witness, and writer."
—Donna Seaman, Booklist (Starred Review)
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"Pulitzer finalist Marshall is perfectly suited to her material...Lively, intuitive study of a remarkable American character."
—Kirkus Reviews
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"Margaret Fuller rushes out at us from her nineteenth century, always several steps ahead, inspiring, heartbreaking, magnificent."
—Rebecca Newberger Goldstein,
author of Betraying Spinoza
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"A masterpiece of empathetic biography, this is the book Fuller herself would have wanted. You will not be able to put it down."
—Robert D. Richardson, author of Emerson: The Mind on Fire
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"A masterful achievement by a great American writer and scholar."
—Evan Thomas, author of Ike's Bluff
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