Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America by Richard Rorty (Paperback, 1999)

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ISBN-13: 9780674003125, 978-0674003125. At the center of this history is the conflict between the Old Left and the New that arose during the Vietnam War era. In this turn to theory, Rorty sees a retreat from the secularism and pragmatism championed by Dewey and Whitman, and he decries the tendency of the heirs of the New Left to theorize about the United States from a distance instead of participating in the civic work of shaping our national future.