And in his teachings and writings, Dr. Barnes drew on his scientific background (as well as the writings of Henry James, John Dewey and George Santayana) to bring a new rigor to the criticism of art, replacing approaches he found intellectually flabby or simply beside the point.

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It is an intellectual history, too, paying as much attention to thinkers such as John Dewey, Walter Lippmann, Reinhold Niebuhr and George Kennan, whose arguments shaped the decisions of presidents, as to the doings of the presidents themselves.

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Shortly afterward, Commodore George Dewey returned the exiled Filipino revolutionary Emilio Aguinaldo to the islands.

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