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'The Metaphysical Club' Robert Siegel talks with Louis Menand, a staff writer at The New Yorker, about his new book, The Metaphysical Club. The book details the transition in intellectual thinking in America before the Civil War and after. (8:00) The Metaphysical Club, by Louis Menand is published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001. ISBN # 0-374-19963-9.

'The Metaphysical Club'

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Robert Siegel talks with Louis Menand, a staff writer at The New Yorker, about his new book, The Metaphysical Club. The book details the transition in intellectual thinking in America before the Civil War and after. (8:00) The Metaphysical Club, by Louis Menand is published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001. ISBN # 0-374-19963-9.

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