Down Among the Duckrabbits tells the story of John McCumber's 44 years in philosophy in the United States and Canada. Together with McCumber's "Time in the Ditch: American Philosophy and the McCarthy Era" and his "Philosophical Excavations: Reason, Truth and Politics in the Early Cold War," "Down Among the Duckrabbit"s provides the only comprehensive and socially contextualized account of American philosophy in the second half of the Twentieth Century, as the United States became the most powerful nation in the history of the world