Fund Drive Special: Henry David Thoreau: A Life
b'Today we bring you a conversation on the life of\\xa0Henry David Thoreau and his essay on civil disobedience and how he inspired the life of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.\\xa0 He was an ardent naturalist, a manual laborer and inventor, a radical political activist who urged for non-violent political resistance and the principled withholding of taxes, and more. We talk about all this and about a seemingly contradictory support for John Brown\\u2019s raid on Harper Ferry.\\nGuest:\\xa0Laura Dassow Walls\\xa0is the William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of several books including,\\xa0Emerson\\u2019s Life in Science: The Culture of Truth. most recently,\\xa0Henry David Thoreau: A Life.\\xa0\\nThe post Fund Drive Special: Henry David Thoreau: A Life appeared first on KPFA.'