The metaphysical club: the story of ideas in America

This book, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, presents a narrative about politics, people, ideas, and a smooth transition of events from the American Civil War to the Spanish-American War and the outbreak of the Philippine-American War, and how those events inspired Charles Pierce, John Dewey, Wendel Holmes, and William James to develop pragmatism where ideas are a tool and means to deal with life. This book is a historical narrative of an idea about ideas…