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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20061231
Author:James Sullivan is the author of "Jeans: A Cultural History of an American Icon."; James Sullivan

BOOK REVIEW

American

Bloomsbury:

Louisa May Alcott,

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller,

Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau - Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work

By Susan Cheever

Simon & Schuster, 223 pp.,

illustrated, $26

Henry David Thoreau, we're informed in Susan Cheever's new book about the smart set that descended upon mid-19th century Concord, was not a large man. The only big things about him, writes Cheever, "were his nose and his ideas."

If you're given pause by the glib tone of that remark, then you're not quite the bull's-eye on the target market for "American ...

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