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This thread is a "spoiler thread" and is a bibliography thread which identifies many of the books which were referenced or used as primary documents during the writing of The Metaphysical Club.

Additionally, we are using the same bibliography during the discussion on the book On Politics: A History of Political Thought: From Herodotus to the Present by Alan Ryan

Please feel free to add properly cited books (book covers, author's photo, and author's links). Add a review or a few words why this book is important to the subject matter, etc.; but remember there is no self promotion, etc.

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by Louis Menand

by Alan James Ryan (no photo)

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Preface:

1. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes - The Shaping Years

http://www.repository.law.indiana.edu...

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: The Shaping Years, 1841-1870

(no image) Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes by Mark DeWolfe Howe (no photo)

Synopsis:

Mark DeWolfe Howe had intended to write a multi-volume biography of Justice Holmes from his birth in 1841 to his eventual death in 1935. Unfortunately, Howe died unexpectedly at a relatively young age and only succeeded in completing two volumes. This volume, the first, covers Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.'s early years as the famous son of a famous father, his service in the Civil War following his attendance at Harvard, and his time in private practice after the war. All this would lay the groundwork for his eventual ascension to associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. It is an excellent work for young lawyers, people of a historical bent, or simply those who want to learn something about the Yankee From Olympus
---Review by Robert Bolton on goodreads

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2. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: The Proving Years, 1870 - 1882

Unfortunately the book is not in goodreads.

Synopsis:

This is the review in the Maine Law Review.

Review:http://mainelaw.maine.edu/academics/m...

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3. Honorable Justice: The Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes

(no image) Honorable Justice: The Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Sheldon M. Novick

Synopsis:

Generations of law students have been raised on his inspiring dissents. His book, THE COMMON LAW, still in print after 100 years, dominates the history of legal thought in America. He is still one of the best known justices of the Supreme Court...yet until now there has been no biography of Oliver Wendall Holmes.
Born into mid-19th century Boston society, Holmes grew up knowing everyone. As a young man, he fought in the Civil War and was seriously wounded. He recovered and returned from the war to practice law and teach at Harvard Law School before his appointment to the bench.

Holmes was always contrary. In the hysteria surrounding WW I, he stood firm for free speech. Later, bucking the tide of public opinion, he refused to uphold the voting of Southern blacks

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4. The Justice from Beacon Hill: The Life and Times of Oliver Wendell Holmes

(no image) The Justice from Beacon Hill: The Life and Times of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Liva Baker (no photo)

Synopsis:

Baker (Miranda, 1983, etc.) presents a highly readable, scholarly biography of the distinguished and enigmatic jurist.

Holmes's life prior to his elevation to the Supreme Court in 1902 was largely an insular and intellectual one, occupied with the arcana of legal scholarship and devoid of events of great drama (with the important exception of the Civil War, in which Holmes received wounds at Ball's Bluff, Antietam, and Chancellorsville).

Nonetheless, Baker demonstrates that Holmes made enduring contributions to American legal thought during this period, first as a Harvard professor and author of the classic The Common Law, and later as a Massachusetts judge.

Baker shows how the horrors of the Civil War shaped Holmes's pessimistic, skeptical, and highly rationalistic view of human nature, how his background as heir to the intellectual and cultural legacy of Puritanism made him an autocrat who "didn't believe much in rights,'' and how his vast legal scholarship did not prevent him from rejecting hoary common- law rules.

The author discusses Holmes's great (and infamous) opinions for the Supreme Court with intelligence and objectivity- -Giles v. Davis, in which Holmes upheld Alabama restrictions on the voting rights of black Americans; his free-speech dissents, which, although articulating the basis of modern free-speech jurisprudence, Holmes privately dismissed as upholding the "right of a donkey to talk drool''; his notorious decision in Buck v. Bell, in which he upheld the sterilization of an allegedly feeble- minded woman with the declaration that "three generations of imbeciles are enough.''

Although some of Holmes's decisions shock modern sensibilities, Baker rightly finds value in his careful and intellectually honest judicial restraint, even regarding legislation he disliked.

A fine, thoughtful biography of one of American legal history's most formidable intellects. -- Review by Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

Book Discussion on C-Span:

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Beac

by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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5. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: Law and the Inner Self

by G. Edward White (no photo)

Synopsis:

By any measure, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., led a full and remarkable life. He was tall and exceptionally attractive, especially as he aged, with piercing eyes, a shock of white hair, and prominent moustache.

He was the son of a famous father (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., renowned for "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table", a thrice-wounded veteran of the Civil War, a Harvard-educated member of Brahmin Boston, the acquaintance of Longfellow, Lowell, and Emerson, and for a time a close friend of William James.

He wrote one of the classic works of American legal scholarship, The CommonLaw, and he served with distinction on the Supreme Court of the United States. He was actively involved in the Court's work into his nineties.

In Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, G. Edward White, the acclaimed biographer of Earl Warren and one of America's most esteemed legal scholars, provides a rounded portrait of this remarkable jurist. We see Holmes's early life in Boston and at Harvard, his ambivalent relationship with his father, and his harrowing service during the Civil War (he was wounded three times, twice nearly fatally, shot in the chest in his first action, and later shot through the neck at Antietam).

White examines Holmes's curious, childless marriage (his diary for 1872 noted on June 17th that he had married Fanny Bowditch Dixwell, and the next sentence indicated that he had become the sole editor of the American Law Review) and he includes new information on Holmes's relationship with Clare Castletown.

White not only provides a vivid portrait of Holmes's life, but examines in depth the inner life and thought of this preeminent legal figure.

There is a full chapter devoted to The Common Law, for instance, and throughout the book, there is astute commentary on Holmes's legal writings.

Indeed, White reveals that some of the themes that have dominated 20th-century American jurisprudence--including protection for free speech and the belief that "judges make the law"--originated in Holmes's work. Perhaps most important, White suggests that understanding Holmes's life is crucial to understanding his work, and he continually stresses the connections between Holmes's legal career and his personal life. For instance, his desire to distinguish himself from his father and from the "soft" literary culture of his father's generation drove him to legal scholarship of a particularly demanding kind.

White's biography of Earl Warren was hailed by Anthony Lewis on the cover of The New York Times Book Review as "serious and fascinating," and The Los Angeles Times noted that "White has gone beyond the labels and given us the man."

In Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, White has produced an equally serious and fascinating biography, one that again goes beyond the labels and gives us the man himself.

by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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Bryan suggested the following book: (thank you Bryan)

A Government Out of Sight: The Mystery of National Authority in Nineteenth-Century America

Brian Balogh (no photo)


Synopsis:

While it is obvious that America's state and local governments were consistently active during the nineteenth century, a period dominated by laissez-faire, political historians of twentieth-century America have assumed that the national government did very little during this period. A Government Out of Sight challenges this premise, chronicling the ways in which the national government intervened powerfully in the lives of nineteenth-century Americans through the law, subsidies, and the use of third parties (including state and local governments), while avoiding bureaucracy. Americans have always turned to the national government - especially for economic development and expansion - and in the nineteenth century even those who argued for a small, nonintrusive central government demanded that the national government expand its authority to meet the nation's challenges. In revising our understanding of the ways in which Americans turned to the national government throughout this period, this study fundamentally alters our perspective on American political development in the twentieth century, shedding light on contemporary debates between progressives and conservatives about the proper size of government and government programs and subsidies that even today remain "out of sight."

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Interesting review of another book:

http://cen.acs.org/articles/91/i20/Un...

Louis Agassiz: Creator of American Science

by Christoph Irmscher

Synopsis:

Charismatic and controversial, Louis Agassiz is our least known revolutionary—some fifty years after American independence, he became a founding father of American science.

One hundred and seventy-five years ago, a Swiss immigrant took America by storm, launching American science as we know it. The irrepressible Louis Agassiz, legendary at a young age for his work on mountain glaciers, focused his prodigious energies on the fauna of the New World. Invited to deliver a series of lectures in Boston, he never left, becoming the most famous scientist of his time. A pioneer in field research and an obsessive collector, Agassiz enlisted the American public in a vast campaign to send him natural specimens, dead or alive, for his ingeniously conceived museum of comparative zoology. As an educator of enduring impact, he trained a generation of American scientists and science teachers, men and women alike. Irmscher sheds new light on Agassiz’s fascinating partnership with his brilliant wife, Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, a science writer in her own right who would go on to become the first president of Radcliffe College.

But there’s a dark side to the story. Irmscher adds unflinching evidence of Agassiz’s racist impulses and shows how avidly Americans looked to men of science to mediate race policy. The book’s potent, original scenes include the pitched battle between Agassiz and his student Henry James Clark as well as the merciless, often amusing exchanges between Darwin and Harvard botanist Asa Gray over Agassiz’s stubborn resistance to evolution.

A fascinating life story, both inspiring and cautionary, for anyone interested in the history of American ideas.

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The Metaphysical Club
Preface - On James

by Ralph Barton Perry

by Gay Wilson Allen (no photo)

by Leon Edel (no photo)

by Jean Strouse (no photo)

by Howard M. Feinstein (no photo)

by Gerald Eugene Myers (no photo)

(no image) Biography of Broken Fortunes: Wilkie and Bob, Brothers of William, Henry, and Alice James by Jane Maher (no photo)

by R.W.B. Lewis (no photo)

by Alfred Habegger (no photo)

by Linda Simon

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The Metaphysical Club
Preface - On Peirce

(no image) Peirce, Semeiotic and Pragmatism by Max Harold Fisch (no photo)

by Joseph Brent (no photo)

by Charles S. Peirce

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The Metaphysical Club
Preface - On Dewey

(no image) The Life and Mind of John Dewey by George Dykhuizen (no photo)

(no image) Young John Dewey: An Essay in American Intellectual History by Neil Coughlan (no photo)

by Steven C. Rockfeller (no photo)

by Robert B. Westbrook (no photo)

by Alan James Ryan (no photo)

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The Metaphysical Club
Preface - On Intellectual History

(no image) Evolution And The Founders Of Pragmatism by Philip P. Wiener (no photo)

(no image) The Rise of American Philosophy, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1860-1930 by Bruce Kuklick (no photo)

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The Metaphysical Club
Chapter One - The Politics of Slavery

(no image) The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Volume XII by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

by Randall Kennedy (no photo)

(no image) Martin R. Delany: the beginnings of black nationalism by Victor Ullman (no photo)

by Dorothy Sterling

(no image) The Improper Bostonian: Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes by Edwin Palmer Hoyt (no photo)

by James M. McPherson

(no image) The Bold Brahmins: New England's War Against Slavery 1831-63 by Lawrence Lader (no photo)

(no image) They Who Would Be Free: Blacks' Search for Freedom, 1830-1861 by Jane H. Pease (no photo)

by Albert J. von Frank (no photo)

by Ulysses S. Grant

by Charles Sumner (no photo)

(no image) The Unitarian Conscience: Harvard Moral Philosophy, 1805 1861 by Daniel Walker Howe (no photo)

by Edward Waldo Emerson (no photo)

by Richard Hofstadter

by William Lloyd Garrison

(no image) Speeches, Lectures, and Letters by Wendell Phillips (no photo)

(no image) American Counterpoint: Slavery and Racism in the North-South Dialogue by C. Vann Woodward (no photo)

(no image) Amiable Autocrat: A Biography Of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes by Eleanor M Tilton (no photo)

by Samuel Eliot Morison

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

ed. by Albert J. von Frank (no photo)

(no image) The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Complete Set ed. by Ralph L. Rusk (no photo)

(no image) The Transcendentalist by Ralph Waldo Emerson

by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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The Metaphysical Club
Chapter Two - The Abolitionist

(no image) The Collected Works of Justice Holmes, Volume 2 by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

(no image) The Letters Of Ellen Tucker Emerson by Ellen Tucker Emerson (no photo)

by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

(no image) Holmes-Laski Letters, the Correspondence of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and Harold J. Laski, 1916-1935, 1 by Mark DeWolfe Howe (no photo)

(no image) The Justice from Beacon Hill: The Life and Times of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Liva Baker (no photo)

by John Hollander (no photo)

by John Weiss (no photo)

by James Elliot Cabot (no photo)

(no image) The Bold Brahmins: New England's War Against Slavery 1831-63 by Lawrence Lader (no photo)

(no image) Wendell Phillips, Brahmin Radical by Irving H. Bartlett (no photo)

by George Ticknor (no photo)

by Allan Nevins

by George A. Bruce (no photo)

by Mark De Wolfe Howe (no photo)

(no image) Regimental Losses In The American Civil War by William F Fox (no photo)

(no image) The Holmes-Einstein Letters by James Bishop Peabody (no photo)

by Henry Livermore Abbott (no photo)

(no image) Disease In The Civil War: Natural Biological Warfare In 1861 1865 by Paul E. Steiner (no photo)

by Benjamin F. Butler (no photo)

(no image) The Correspondence Of John Lothrop Motley by John Lothrop Motley (no photo)

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The Metaphysical Club
Chapter Three - The Wilderness and After

by George M. Fredrickson (no photo)

(no image) Mr. Justice Holmes by Francis Biddle (no photo)

by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

by John T. Morse Jr. (no photo)

by Vernon Louis Parrington (no photo)

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The Metaphysical Club
Chapter Four - The Man of Two Minds

by Ralph Barton Perry

by William James

by Alice James (no photo)

by Bernard Berenson

by Alfred Habegger (no photo)

by Alexis de Tocqueville

by Nathan O. Hatch (no photo)

by Jon Butler (no photo)

by R.W.B. Lewis (no photo)

by Henry James

(no image) Society, the Redeemed Form of Man and the Earnest of God's Omnipotence in Human Nature: Affirmed in Letters to a Friend by Henry James

(no image) Substance and Shadow by Henry James

(no image) Memories Of A Hostess by M.A. DeWolfe Howe (no photo)

(no image) The Secret Of Swedenborg by Henry James Sr. (no photo)

(no image) The Church Of Christ Not An Ecclesiasticism by Henry James Sr. (no photo)

by Sydney E. Ahlstrom (no photo)

by Whitney R. Cross (no photo)

by Frank Podmore (no photo)

by Henri F. Ellenberger (no photo)

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The Metaphysical Club
Chapter Five - Agassiz

by Edward Lurie (no photo)

by Robert V. Bruce (no photo)

by Lane Cooper (no photo)

by Sophia Penn Shaler (no photo)

by Samuel Eliot Morison

by Jules Marcou (no photo)

by Louis Agassiz (no photo)

by Stephen Jay Gould

by L. -F -Alfred Maury (no photo)

(no image) Encyclopaedia of ethnology - Types of Mankind: Researches Based upon Ancient Monuments, Paintings, Sculptures, and Crania of Races and upon their Natural, Geographical,Philological, and Biblical History by J. C. Nott (no photo)

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The Metaphysical Club
Chapter Six - Brazil

by Ernst Mayr

by Michael T. Ghiselin (no photo)

by Robert J. Richards (no photo)

by Jonathan Weiner

by Edward S. Reed (no photo)

by Charles Darwin

by Asa Gray (no photo)

by Louis Agassiz (no photo)

(no image) Brazil and Africa by Jose Rodrigues (no photo)

by Lilia Moritz Schwarcz (no photo)

by Henry Adams

by John Henry Hopkins (no photo)

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The Metaphysical Club
Chapter Seven - The Peirces

(no image) The teaching and history of mathematics in the United States by Florian Cajori (no photo)

by Robert V. Bruce (no photo)

by Simon Newcomb (no photo)

by Benjamin Peirce (no photo)

(no image) Ideality in the Physical Sciences by Benjamin Peirce (no photo)

by Joseph Brent (no photo)

by Charles S. Peirce

by Lance E. Davis (no photo)

(no image) The Howland Heirs: Being the Story of a Family and a Fortune and the Inheritance of a Trust ... by William Morrell Emery (no photo)

(no image) History of the American Whale Fishery by Walter Sheldon Tower (no photo)

by Margaret S. Creighton (no photo)

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The Metaphysical Club
Chapter Eight - The Law of Errors

by Stephen M. Stigler (no photo)

by Gerd Gigerenzer

by Ian Hacking

by Theodore M. Porter (no photo)

by M. Norton Wise (no photo)

by Abraham De Moivre (no photo)

by Charles Coulston Gillispie (no photo)

by John Theodore Merz (no photo)

by Lorenz Krüger (no photo)

(no image) The teaching and history of mathematics in the United States by Florian Cajori (no photo)

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The Metaphysical Club
Chapter Nine - The Metaphysical Club

(no image) Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, Volumes V and VI, Pragmatism and Pragmaticism and Scientific Metaphysics by Charles S. Peirce

(no image) Letters Of Chauncey Wright by Chauncey Wright (no photo)

by William James

by Ralph Barton Perry

by Lewis Campbell (no photo)

by Charles S. Peirce

by Immanuel Kant

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The Metaphysical Club
Chapter Ten - Burlington

by Henry Steele Commager (no photo)

by John Dewey

(no image) Dialogue on John Dewey by Corliss Lamont (no photo)

(no image) The Life of John Marshall: 4 Vols in 2 Hardcovers by Albert J. Beveridge (no photo)

by John J. Duffy (no photo)

(no image) Aids to Reflection by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

by William Blake

by James Elliot Cabot (no photo)

by University of Vermont Faculty (no photo)

(no image) The Later Works of John Dewey, Volume 13, 1925 - 1953: 1938-1939, Experience and Education, Freedom and Culture, Theory of Valuation, and Essays by John Dewey

by Paul Arthur Schilpp (no photo)

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The Metaphysical Club
Chapter Eleven - Baltimore

by Hugh Hawkins (no photo)

by Laurence R. Veysey (no photo)

by Samuel Eliot Morison

(no image) Between Harvard and America; The Educational Leadership of Charles W. Eliot. by Hugh Hawkins (no photo)

(no image) The Culture of Professionalism: The Middle Class and the Development of Higher Education in America by Burton J. Bledstein (no photo)

by Julie A. Reuben (no photo)

by Jon H. Roberts (no photo)

by John Theodore Merz (no photo)

(no image) The Origins of Behaviorism: American Psychology, 1870-1920 by John M. O'Donnell (no photo)

by Kurt Danziger (no photo)

by Roger Smith (no photo)

by Edward S. Reed (no photo)

by John J. Duffy (no photo)

(no image) Philosophy and Christianity: A Series of Lectures Delivered in New York, in 1883, on the Ely ... by George Sylvester Morris (no photo)

(no image) Life And Confessions Of A Psychologist by G. Stanley Hall (no photo)

by Dorothy Ross (no photo)

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The Metaphysical Club
Chapter Twelve - Chicago

by David Ray Papke (no photo)

by Ray Ginger (no photo)

by Stanley Buder (no photo)

by Harold U. Faulkner (no photo)

by Samuel P. Hays (no photo)

by Almont Lindsey (no photo)

by Richard Schneirov (no photo)

by Nick Salvatore (no photo)

by Allan Nevins

by Robert C. Bannister (no photo)

by T.J. Jackson Lears (no photo)

by Thorstein Veblen

(no image) Beloved Lady: A History Of Jane Addams' Ideas On Reform And Peace by John C. Farrell (no photo)

by Allen F. Davis (no photo)

by Gioia Diliberto

by Jane Addams

by Katherine Camp Mayhew

by John Dewey

(no image) Dialogue on John Dewey by Corliss Lamont (no photo)

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The Metaphysical Club
Chapter Thirteen - Pragmatisms

(no image) The Justice from Beacon Hill: The Life and Times of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Liva Baker (no photo)

by William James

by Sidney Morgenbesser (no photo)

by Robert J. Richards (no photo)

by Harold U. Faulkner (no photo)

by Samuel P. Hays (no photo)

(no image) Chicago To-Day: Or, the Labour War in America by William Thomas Stead (no photo)

by C. Vann Woodward (no photo)

by Bertrand Russell

(no image) Dialogue on John Dewey by Corliss Lamont (no photo)

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The Metaphysical Club
Chapter Fourteen - Pluralisms

by Linda Simon

by Frank Lentricchia (no photo)

by George Cotkin (no photo)

by Arthur F. Bentley (no photo)

by Richard Hofstadter

by Donald F. Koch (no photo)

by Samuel Eliot Morison

by Peter J. Bowler (no photo)

by Carl N. Degler (no photo)

by Thomas F. Gossett (no photo)

(no image) Edward Alsworth Ross and the sociology of progressivism by Julius Weinberg (no photo)

by George W. Stocking, Jr. (no photo)

(no image) Franz Boas; The Science Of Man In The Making by Melville Herskovits (no photo)

(no image) A Franz Boas Reader: The Shaping of American Anthropology, 1883-1911 by Franz Boas (no photo)

(no image) Papers On Inter Racial Problems, Communicated To The First Universal Races Congress Held At The University Of London, July 26 29, 1911 by G. Spiller (no photo)

by Richard Schickel (no photo)

by Madison Grant

by Stephan A. Thernstrom (no photo)

(no image) Send These to Me: Jews and Other Immigrants in Urban America by John Higham (no photo)

by Sacvan Bercovitch (no photo)

by Walter Benn Michaels (no photo)

by Alain LeRoy Locke (no photo)

(no image) The Letters of Randolph Bourne: A Comprehensive Edition by Eric J. Sandeen (no photo)

by Christopher Lasch

by Edward Abrahams (no photo)

by Horace Kallen (no photo)

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The Metaphysical Club
Chapter Fifteen - Freedoms

by Laurence R. Veysey (no photo)

by Louis Menand

(no image) The Rise of American Philosophy, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1860-1930 by Bruce Kuklick (no photo)

by Herbert Spencer

by David M. Rabban (no photo)

by Nick Salvatore (no photo)

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The Metaphysical Club
Epilogue

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This is where the books will be continually added to - which were used by Alan Ryan in his Bibliography for On Politics: A History of Political Thought: From Herodotus to the Present.