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American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work   Susan Cheever
Gossipy rather than scholarly, admittedly very repetitive, account of the interplay of the lives of some of the greatest writers and thinkers in American history, all congregated in Concord, Massachusetts in the middle of the 19^th century. While Cheever acknowledges their genius, she is disparaging of the men, but always sympathetic to the women. The book is like an exposé, it became very tedious. Deeply disappointing. Too bad.