Sig Nordal

To the Editors: I was surprised at Robert Pogue Harrison’s assertion in “The True American” that “Thoreau hardly makes it onto the list of notable American authors outside his home country,” and that “his peculiar brand of American nativism has little international appeal.” In fact, Thoreau’s international reception is both broad and deep at this summer’s mark of his bicentennial.

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