![]() For Thoreau, this war was unjust not because it was an act of violence, as is commonly believed, but because he thought it was little more than a thinly veiled attempt on the part of the American government to take land that rightfully belonged to another nation. In his two most famous texts - Walden and “Civil Disobedience” - Thoreau recounts the story of being taken by the authorities for not paying a tax that would go toward paying for the Mexican-American war. ![]() ![]() In her article, “The Thoreau Problem,” Rebecca Solnit begins by drawing our attention to the mythical place that huckleberries play in Thoreau’s writing. ![]()
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