A riveting, original book about the creation of the modern American mind. The Me
taphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1
872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., found
er of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychol
ogy; and Charles Sanders Peirce, logician, scientist, and the founder of semioti
cs.