Volume 43, Number 8 · May 9, 1996
Dewey Rides Again
By Michael J Sandel
John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism
by Alan Ryan
Norton, 414 pp., $30.00
In the first half of the twentieth century, John Dewey was America's most celebrated philosopher. More than a philosopher, he was a public intellectual who wrote about politics and education, science and faith, for an audience beyond the academy. When Dewey died in 1952, at age ninety-three, Henry Commager described him as 'the guide, the mentor, and the conscience of the American people; it is scarcely an exaggeration to say that for a generation no issue was clarified until Dewey had spoken.'
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