Leo Marx

Leo Marx is the Kenan Professor of American Cultural History (Emeritus) at MIT and most recently the editor, with Bruce Mazlish, of Progress:Fact or Illusion? (July 1999)

From the Review

December 2, 1999: An Exchange on Thoreau

July 15, 1999: The Full Thoreau

The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture by Lawrence Buell

Seeing New Worlds: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Natural Science by Laura Dassow Walls

June 24, 1999: The Struggle Over Thoreau

The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau: Journal Volume 1: 1837-1844 Editor-in-Chief, Elizabeth Hall Witherell

The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau: Journal Volume 2: 1842-1848 Editor-in-Chief, Elizabeth Hall Witherell

The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau: Journal Volume 3: 1848-1851 Editor-in-Chief, Elizabeth Hall Witherell

The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau: Journal Volume 4: 1851-1852 Editor-in-Chief, Elizabeth Hall Witherell

The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau: Journal Volume 5: 1852-1853 Editor-in-Chief, Elizabeth Hall Witherell

Faith in a Seed: The Dispersion of Seeds and Other Late Natural History Writings by Henry D. Thoreau, edited by Bradley P. Dean

A Year in Thoreau's Journal: 1851 by Henry David Thoreau, with an introduction and notes by H. Daniel Peck

Consciousness in Concord: The Text of Thoreau's Hitherto "Lost Journal" (1840-1841) Together with Notes and a Commentary edited by Perry Miller

Deep Ecology for the 21st Century: Readings on the Philosophy and Practice of the New Environmentalism by George#tedited by Sessions

Writing Nature: Henry Thoreau's Journal by Sharon Cameron

May 28, 1987: Emerson and Socialism: An Exchange

March 12, 1987: A Visit to Mr. America

The American Newness: Culture and Politics in the Age of Emerson by Irving Howe

May 9, 1985: Hawthorne and His Secret (letter)

February 14, 1985: All in the Family

Hawthorne's Secret: An Un-Told Tale by Philip Young

March 15, 1984: Closely Watched Trains

Metropolitan Corridor: Railroads and the American Scene by John R. Stilgoe

October 26, 1978: The Two Thoreaus

Young Man Thoreau by Richard Lebeaux

February 15, 1968: Protest (letter)

November 9, 1967: The Responsibility of Intellectuals (letter)

Books by Leo Marx

The Pilot and the Passenger: Essays on Literature, Technology, and Culture in the United States (1988)
La Macchina Nel Giardino: Tecnologia E Ideale Pastorale in America (1987)
The American Revolution and the American Landscape: Delivered in Cabell Hall, the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, on March 27, 1974 (1974)
The Machine in the Garden; Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America (1964)