| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.4

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Book Review

Becoming John Dewey: Dilemmas of a Philosopher and Naturalist. By Thomas C. Dalton. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. xiv, 377 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-253-34082-9.)

If Alexis de Tocqueville was right in saying that Americans have not been an especially philosophical people, they have nevertheless had their philosophers. Clearly, John Dewey is considered one of America's most important philosophers. Dewey lived more than nine decades, contributing to education, to philosophy, in particular, to pragmatism, and to liberal social thought, especially in the interwar years. Over the years many of Dewey's students and associates have offered us their interpretations of him. More recently, several professional historians have weighed in with serious scholarly contributions, especially Robert Westbrook and Alan Ryan, whose biographies have provided sorely needed historical information and perspective. And recent work in the history of education suggests that Dewey's career in education was short-lived and not particularly influential. That leaves us with Dewey as philosopher.

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