The Crisis of Democratic Theory

Fills a major gap for mature students of American thought and political theory.

~Choice

Embodies the broad scope and balanced judgment to make it henceforth one of the standard historical syntheses of American ideas and to establish its author as a leading intellectual historian.

~Journal of Southern History

Brilliant.

~Key Reporter

Will greatly help social scientists to understand better the impact of scientific naturalism on the social sciences.

~Political Theory

[L]ucid, informative, perceptive, and commendably fair-minded.

~Journal of American History