seattletimes.nwsource.com — 'America the Philosophical' by Carlin Romano Knopf, 672 pp., $35 The United States, we all know, is a peculiarly unphilosophical country. Americans don't like abstract theorizing or deep introspection; we are a nation of doers, not thinkers like those effete Europeans. Rubbish, says Carlin Romano in his stimulating new book "America the Philosophical."