p>The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America By Louis Menand Farrar, Straus and Giroux 546 pages, $27 Several years ago, Richard Rorty gave a speech on the origins of the American labor movement. It was, he said, "a blood-drenched history of violent struggle." Winning [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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