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Award-winning historian Gross (emeritus, Univ. of Connecticut; The Minutemen and Their World) looks at the small but not closed world of Concord, Massachusetts, and asks: why did the cultural ideal of individualism come to the front there in the 1830s? And what form did it take? He proposes that in Boston, spurred by reformers like Orestes Brownson and George Ripley, the Transcendentalist ideal of self-culture was linked direc...Log In or Sign Up to Read More