The jacket copy of Carlin Romano’s “America the Philosophical” trumpets the astonishing news that “America today towers as the most philosophical culture in the history of the world, an unprecedented marketplace for truth and debate that far surpasses ancient Greece …” Wow! I didn’t know. Six hundred prolix pages later, after having learned that Hugh Hefner, Bill Moyers and Barack Obama all redound to America’s world-historical philosophical splendor, I didn’t care.
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