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This concluding chapter examines the postbellum rise of the philosophical school of Pragmatism, promoted in large part by Oliver Wendell Holmes. The author argues for Pragmatism as a response to the ideological extremes that spawned the Civil War, but asserts that neither path adequately describes the U.S. today. Rather, our nationhood rests in the tension between these two opposing ideals.
Keywords: Civil War; Oliver Wendell Holmes; nationhood; pragmatism
Chapter. 1777 words.
Subjects: US Politics
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