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Earnest Lives: New and Notable Books

Earnest Lives: New and Notable Books

Friday, October 30, 2026
Ralph Waldo Emerson once declared, “All history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons”—a good example of transcendentalist bluster. Samuel Johnson was less grandiose... The post Earnest Lives: New and Notable Books appeared first on First Things.