AudioBook Review:Stars: Overall: 5 Narration: 5 Story: 5 One element that always struck me when I read Little Women was the lack, or adjunct roles that the men play in the story. Sure, there is Lorrie, and the oft-absent father, but the sense that the men were little more than window dressi...
Very interesting book. I hadn't realized how much of an activist for women's rights the Mays and Alcotts were. Louisa's father comes off as very self-centered and delusional, though his later thought and feelings redeem him somewhat. It's a shame that many of Marmee's and Louisa's journals and...
Early in "Civil Disobedience," Henry David Thoreau wonders why government refuses to "cherish its wise minority." He asks, "Why does it always crucify Christ and excommunicate Copernicus and Luther, and pronounce Washington and Franklin rebels?"His friend Margaret Fuller might have wryly asked wh...