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Susan Cheever Takes On The Transcendentalists - And Wins.
From: Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT)
Date: 20061210
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Byline: Jeanne A. Leblanc
Dec. 10--Generations of Americans have learned in high school to fear and loathe American literary genius. It takes only a few forced feedings to set off the gag reflex, and it doesn't help that the masters get mixed in with such non-starters as James Fenimore Cooper.
Someday, those students vow, I'll read what I want to read. It's a bit like the angry promise made while sitting, arms crossed, in front of a cooling plate of broccoli: Someday I'll eat what I want.
Years later, we're not eating M&M's for dinner. Yet somehow the post-traumatic ...
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