Robert B. Westbrook is Professor of History at the University of Rochester. He is the author of John Dewey and American Democracy, also from Cornell, winner of the Merle Curti Award. He is also the author of Why We Fought: Forging American Obligations in World War II and the coeditor of In Face of the Facts: Moral Inquiry in American Scholarship.
"A comprehensive intellectual biography of the great democratic
theorist and activist.... Westbrook's scholarship is definitive,
and he succeeds in defending Dewey’s work against most of his
important critics, and reminding us that Dewey's concerns and
ambitions are still relevant to today's world."
*Kirkus Reviews*
"An exceptionally intelligent, rigorous, and thorough book.
Westbrook's call for a renewed appreciation of Dewey's relevance is
strengthened by great learning and conviction."
*New York Review of Books*
"Westbrook provides a vigorous, convincing, and readable analysis
of the major episodes in Dewey's career, including his conflicts
with such other prominent, public intellectuals as Randolph Bourne,
Walter Lippmann, Lewis Mumford, and Reinhold Niebuhr."
*The Atlantic*
"A major event in the history of American letters.... This book
should last as the definitive word on Dewey for at least as long as
Dewey lived."
*Washington Post Book World*
"Neither a straight biography nor a narrow work of scholarship,
John Dewey and American Democracy offers instead a briskly readable
narrative of Dewey's lifework, focusing on his advocacy of
democracy.... Westbrook's reconstruction of Dewey's evolving
thought is detailed, sympathetic, and lucid."
*The Nation*
"Far and away the best book on Dewey yet. Westbrook's intellectual
biography is scholarship at its finest, a very unusual combination
of vast learning, dialectical acuity and literary skill.... This
book will do a great deal to make Dewey more available and
plausible, and to help his writings shape the imagination of a new
generation of Americans."
*New Leader*
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