Achieving Our Country

Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America

Richard Rorty

    American National Pride: Whitman and Dewey

    The Eclipse of the Reformist Left

    A Cultural Left

    Appendixes

    Movements and Campaigns

    The Inspirational Value of Great Works of Literature

    Notes

    Acknowledgments

    Index

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Richard Rorty is Professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford University. He is the author of the landmark works Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature; Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity; and The Consequences of Pragmatism.