About the Author

Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen is the Merle Curti Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

Reviews

"This is a superb book, widely and imaginatively researched, boldly argued, and vigorously written. The story it tells is compelling and populated by a fascinating array of characters, including almost everyone of importance in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American intellectual history: including Emerson, William James, Santayana, Mencken, and a host of lesser folk." (Jackson Lears)"