Kuklick, Bruce. The Rise Of American Philosophy: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1860-1930. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977. 

Abstract

The 1978 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award for studies of the intellectual and cultural condition of man was given to Bruce Kuklick for The Rise of American Philosophy. Of it the Award Committee stated: "This splendid book analyzes, in a clear and graceful manner, the changing conceptions of American philosophy during a period in which academic philosophy in the United States came almost to be equated with Harvard. It is a superb piece of intellectual history in which basic philosophic ideas are spelled out and analyzed. Furthermore, the book goes beyond a concern with ideas to an inquiry into the societal, and particulary the academic, context from which they emerged."