Walt Whitman
Poet, writer, author, journalist, essayist, wrote the poem "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" in 1865
Christopher Hitchens
Atheist, pioneer in atheism, polemicist, author of God Is Not Great, philosopher, columnist, essayist, orator, journalist, social critic, literary critic
1949-2011 (62)
Henry David Thoreau
Philosopher aka Henry Thoreau, naturalist, Walden Woods, essayist, poet, transcendentalist writer, author of Walden: Life in the Woods, Civil Disobedience
1817-1862 (45)
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Henry A. Kissinger
US Secretary of State for Richard Nixon from 1973-1977, politician, lobbyist, founder of Kissinger Associates, diplomat or war criminal, author of World Order, On China, Diplomacy
1923-2023 (100)
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poet, essayist, philosopher, lecturer, abolitionist, activist for the transcendentalist movement
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St. George Tucker
Slavery abolitionist, essayist, author of View of the Constitution
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