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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Fuller, Randall, 1963- author.     Subjects     Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882. On the origin of species.     Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 -- Influence.     Evolution (Biology) -- United States -- History -- 19th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Fuller, Randall, 1963- author.       by title:      The book that change...         MARC Display

The book that changed America [electronic resource] : how Darwin's theory of evolution ignited a nation / Randall Fuller. by Fuller, Randall, 1963- author. [New York] : Penguin Audio, 2017. Subjects Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882. On the origin of species.   Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 -- Influence.   Evolution (Biology) -- United States -- History -- 19th century. Electronic Resource http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=50&titleID=2697247 This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/2697247-TheBookThatChangedAmerica.mp3 Electronic Resource https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=f7b2c729-110f-4e10-b379-9e689c74c6df&.epub-sample.overdrive.com ISBN:  9781524708368 (electronic audio bk.) 1524708364 (electronic audio bk.) Description:  1 online resource (1 sound file (09 hr., 43 min., 45 sec.)) : digital Edition:  Unabridged. Requests:  0 Summary:  A compelling portrait of a unique moment in American history when the ideas of Charles Darwin reshaped American notions about nature, religion, science and race. "A lively and informative history." - The New York Times Book Review. Throughout its history America has been torn in two by debates over ideals and beliefs. Randall Fuller takes us back to one of those turning points, in 1860, with the story of the influence of Charles Darwin's just-published On the Origin of Species on five American intellectuals, including Bronson Alcott, Henry David Thoreau, the child welfare reformer Charles Loring Brace, and the abolitionist Franklin Sanborn. Each of these figures seized on the book's assertion of a common ancestry for all creatures as a powerful argument against slavery, one that helped provide scientific credibility to the cause of abolition. Darwin's depiction of constant struggle and endless competition described America on the brink of civil war. But some had difficulty aligning the new theory to their religious convictions and their faith in a higher power. Thoreau, perhaps the most profoundly affected all, absorbed Darwin's views into his mysterious final work on species migration and the interconnectedness of all living things. Creating a rich tableau of nineteenth-century American intellectual culture, as well as providing a fascinating biography of perhaps the single most important idea of that time, The Book That Changed America is also an account of issues and concerns still with us today, including racism and the enduring conflict between science and religion.   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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