I joined a transcendental reading group on Facebook, and I don't know how much I'll read along with the group, but to prepare myself I'm reading American Bloomsbury by Susan Cheever. I posted the book to the Transcendental group and they went wild! Supposedly it's historical fiction, or really inaccurate history. Someone contacted Cheever, and she blamed it on research assistants. They wondered how much of it would be corrected in later editions, but nobody knew. So I read this book with a grain of salt! She says they were "seduced by the false authority" of John Brown , so I read a lot of the John Brown. He can be a saint or you can see him as the first person executed for treason in America. There was a reference to a song about him, and that got me onto the song " Battle Hymn of the Republic " I feel like I'm doing some elementary history class, but I didn't really pay attention in history, or social studies, as they called it when I was ...