Stephen Saperstein Frug on The Future, Now and Then

From a good book by Cheryl Misak (who, unlike Menand, is a philosopher) called THE AMERICAN PRAGMATISTS: "While Menand is to be thanked for amassing a rich collection of historical detail about the pragmatists and portraying their personalities so well, his story is philosophically misguided." (p. 2) This is not to say that Menand isn't worth reading: he is a great introduction, and he really does a good job of painting the historical context. But if you want to understand the philosophy of the Pragmatists, you'll have to dig further. (Misak is a good second book.)