ralph waldo emerson was born in 1803 in boston, massachusetts. a local boy, he spent his life in the city, but for a brief time when he came over when he was around 12. he continued to visit the property throughout his life. and when he wrote nature in 1834, his mother came for a visit. becoming -- as wrote ripley -- ezra ripley was here as well and he was becoming elderly. they cared for him for a brief time as well. emerson, even though he was born a city boy, it was a home for him. in 1834, he comes here and puts himself in the upstairs study, and that is where he wrote the first draft of nature. he came briefly for nine months when he was here in the house and overlapped with ezra. ofs is an early vision continuing what the people who lived and worked in this room -- including emerson, who sat in a chair just like this one. the original of the emerson chair is over at the concorde museum and wonderful collaboration last year, the museum, the trustees of the reservation, and the north bennet street school came together to reproduce the emerson

ralph waldo emerson was born in 1803 in boston, massachusetts. he is a local boy. he spent his life in the city, but for a brief time, he also came over to the old manse when he came over when he was around 12. he continued to visit the property throughout his life. when he wrote "nature" in 1834 when he and his mother came for a visit, the reverend ezra ripley was here as well and he was becoming elderly. they cared for him for a brief time as well. emerson, even though he was born he was in this area and it was a home for him. in 1834, he comes here and puts himself in the upstairs study, which at that time was also a bedroom he stayed in. and that is where he wrote the first draft of "nature." he came briefly for nine months where he was here in the house and overlapped with ezra. this early vision of looking out continued with the people who lived and worked in this room, including with emerson who sat , in a chair just like this one. the original of the emerson chair is over at the concorde museum. and in a wonderful collaboration with them last year the , mus

ralph waldo emerson, life goes on. here's the best one and we will end on this and i think this is most appropriate for this evening and for you and what you've done for this country the last 25 years and well for the next 25 plus years. maia angelou but still i rise. thank you all very much for coming. [applause] [cheering] [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [cheering] welcome to barnes and noble at the westside. tonight i have the pleasure of introducing author jennifer allen and amy pardons. jonathan covered politics for e-echo, bloomberg and fox and is the head of community content for slide wire and writes a political column for roll call. amy is a senior white house correspondent for the newspaper in washington and covers

ralph waldo emerson, life goes on. but here's the best one and we will end on this and i think this is most appropriate for this evening and for you and what you've done for this country the last 25 years and well for the next 25 plus years. maia angelou but still i rise. thank you all very much for coming. [applause] [cheering] [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [cheering]

there is only the trying, ralph waldo emerson, life goes on. here's the best one and we will end on this one and this one is most appropriate for this evening, most appropriate for you and what you've done for thiscountry . and will for the next 25+ years. from maya angelou. still i rise, thank you all very much for coming. >>. [applause] >>. >>. [applause] >>. [applause] >>. [applause]. >>. [applause]. >> you're watching book tv on c-span2 with nonfiction books and authors every weekend. tv, television for serious readers. >>. >> and on this columbus day weekend, three days of book tv. >> former radio host and msnbc contributor to charles seitz looks at the conservative movement in america, he's interviewed by fox news intervener tammy bruce. >> also noted nobel prize-winning economist talks about how to solve the problems of the global property and climate change, using conversation with jeffrey sachs of columbia university. >> michael wellman president of the brennan center for justice at nyu school of law examines the second amendment and t

up next, we visit the old manse in concord, massachusetts, to learn about ralph waldo emerson's time in the home as well as other writers.