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«THE NEW YORK TIMES» BESTSELLER AND EDITORS’ CHOICE OF BEST BOOKS OF 2001

Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians

Winner of the «Chicago Tribune’s» Heartland Prize for Nonfiction

«The clarity and energy of his writing never fail… «The Metaphysical Club» sets a new standard for anyone who would write, or read, the human story of a progress of ideas.» -ΚΕΝΝΕΤH BAKER, «San Francisco Chronicle»

An utterly absorbing narrative of people, politics, and ideas, Louis Menand’s «The Metaphysical Club» is «something very like a history of the American mind at work» (Alan Ryan, «The New York Review of Books»). Covering American history in the years between the Civil War and the end of the First World War, Menand draws masterful portraits of four giants of American thought-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., William James, Charles Sanders Peirce, and John Dewey-whose ideas changed the way Americans think.

«Anybody interested in modern America will find rewards aplenty in «The Metaphysical Club». It enlivens virtually everything it touches.» -«The Economist»

«A feast of canny wisdom and sophisticated entertainment.» -CARLIN ROMANO, «The Nation»