MixedThe Washington PostAn impassioned and often successful defense of Thoreau as a diligent worker ... The book is at its best when it guides readers through Thoreau’s place in a longer philosophical history of work ... In their quest to acquit Thoreau of indolence and assert his continued relevance, however, the authors cede too much to the profit-driven ethic that they say they want to interrogate ... The greatest flaw of Henry at Work: It tends to regard the problem of work as one of attitude rather than one of material conditions.
