California History, June 22nd, 2001
Two books appeared in the mid-1980s that were important in re-orienting public discourse about the past and the future of American life. Late; two groups of scholars evaluated these books, and the authors were given an opportunity for response. In both cases the celebrated authors wrote of their own surprise in acknowledging that they had a nineteenth-century scholar in the back of their minds when writing their books but had not fully realized as much. They both stated their previously unacknowledged debt to Josiah Royce. In Habits of the Heart, Robert Bellah and his colleagues reached back ...
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