Becoming Brownson: The Early Life of Orestes A. Brownson ...
Hughes, Lynn Gordon
Orestes Augustus Brownson - religious and philosophical explorer, political theorist, pioneer of personal journalism, Transcendentalist, and champion of American Catholicism - lived a colorful and varied life. His contemporaries likened him to a weathervane, changing direction with every puff of wind. He preferred to think of himself as a seeker after truth, never contented with yesterday's answers. The roots of his varied career were sent dow...