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             Robert Richardson is a distinguished scholar and the   author of  Emerson: The Mind on Fire (1995), winner of the Frederic G.   Melcher Book Award, and Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind (1986), both   from the University of California. William James: In the Maelstrom of   American Modernism will appear from Houghton Mifflin this fall. Richardson   is the recipient of the Francis Parkman Prize and has been a finalist for the   National Book Critics Circle Award, among many other honors.    
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