Cover of The Metaphysical Club

The Metaphysical Club

by Louis Menand

2001 546 pages eng

"The Civil War made America a modern nation, unleashing forces of industrialism and expansion that had been kept in check for decades by the quarrel over slavery. But the war also discredited the ideas and beliefs of the era that preceded it. The Civil War swept away the slave civilization of the So…

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