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The Concord gang; A look at their lives and loves.(BOOKS)(ON BOOKS)

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From: The Washington Times
Date: 20061210
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Byline: Carol Herman, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

There is something abundantly American about Susan Cheever's romp through and around the lives of five prominent authors Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller and Louisa May Alcott who lived in Concord, Mass., during the middle of the 19th century.

All but Fuller will be easily recognized by most readers, though it is she, the editor (of Emerson's Dial magazine) who seems to have been for a brief time the one who pulled the others into her beguiling orbit, and who, at the beginning of ...

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