American Sage: The Spiritual Teachings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, by Barry M. Andrews. University of Massachusetts Press, 2021. Paperback, 237 pp. Explores the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, including his journals and letters, making the, accessible to today's spiritual seekers. Written in everyday language and based on scholarship grounded in historical detail, this book considers the 19th-century religious and intellectual crosscurrents that shaped Emerson's worldview to reveal how his spiritual teachings remain timeless and modern, universal and uniquely American. In like-new condition.