America's Forgotten Poet-Philosopher: The Thought of John Elof Boodin in His Time and Ours - Paperbackby Michael A. Flannery (Author) This book examines the ideas and influences of a nearly forgotten Swedish American philosopher, John Elof Boodin (1869 1950). A friend and student of William James and prot? g? of Josiah Royce at Harvard, Boodin combined Jamesian pragmatism and Roycean idealism in developing original scholarship (nearly sixty articles and eight books) from 1900 to 1947, in addition to a volume of posthumous papers published in 1957.