Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Forever Young: A Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Dancing with Emerson 1
6. Emerson 3
7. The Single Vision 9
8. Windfall 49
9. Spires of Influence 50
10. Teaching for Lustres 67
11. The Continental College of Beauty 99
12. Emerson at The Gates 101
13. Taking Emerson Personally 122
14. Local Knowledge 139
15. Face to Face with Emerson 141
16. Emerson’s Nature 151
17. Shudder 161
18. Emerson and the Reinvention of Democracy 162
19. Individualism, Natural Law, Human Rights 179
20. For the Children 195
21. After Emerson 196
22. Letter to Lucia 209
23. Contributors 211
24. Index 215