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Author Susan Cheever's new book, American Bloomsbury, explores the lives and times of the writers who floated in and out of Concord, Massachusetts, during the 19th Century. They include Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Louisa May Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Margaret Fuller. The unlikely grouping of anti-establishment thinkers in the placid New England town set the stage for intertwined tales of romance and even some hostility. Susan joins us to talk about her work and what drew her to it.