Deals with the radical theorists rather than the doctrines of social and political movements. This title aims to lay bare the connections between intellectual dissent and theories of society, and explores the subject of the heritage of American radical thinking. ' ... contrives even in such small compass to introduce and make sense of a mass of material vital to our understanding of the development of American society and relevant to general theories of social change .' - Sociology 'This is an important book, matching in clarity and scholarship his previous study Classes in Modern Society' - Humanist