Van Wesep, H. B.  Seven Sages: The Story of American Philosophy.  NY: Mckay, 1960.

Abstract

Van Wesep writes an urbane, non-academic sampling of some of the best in American philosophy.  There are many perceptive judgments of Franklin, Emerson, James, Dewey, Santayana, Peirce, and Whitehead.  The chapter on Peirce, for example, is peppered with excursions into little-known, but sychologically important, facts about academic internecine struggles.  In brief, we are treated to the first biographical history of philosophy since G. H. Lewes.  [Abstract from The Philosopher’s Index]