John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism
- ISBN-10
- 0393315509
- ISBN-13
- 9780393315509
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 414
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Author
- Alan Ryan
Description
"[A] brilliant intellectual biography. . . . Ryan submits incisive, compressed accounts of Dewey's important works and, with considerable flair, describes the major political debates into which Dewey entered. Ryan has an expert historian's grasp on the major events of the century and weaves them skillfully through Dewey's life story." --Mark Edmundson, Washington Post Book World
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