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Article: The pragmatic American: William James and our homegrown way of thought.(William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism)(Book review)
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- Harper's Magazine
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- January 1, 2007
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William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism, by Robert D. Richardson. Houghton Mifflin. 640 pages. $30.
In 1935, William James's pupil Ralph Barton Perry published The Thought and Character of William James, which established the main lines and pressure points of his master's life. Recent biographers have largely taken their bearings from Perry and have been content to add some corroborative or revisionist details and a larger intellectual setting. We may take it that most of the evidence is now in. Robert D. Richardson does not claim to have made any major discoveries with William James: In the Maelstrom of American ...