Includes bibliographical references and index.

The religious Left -- New harmony -- Yankee Utopians -- Bible communists -- Antebellum reformers -- The Amerikan International -- Knights of Labor, immigrant anarchists, & white-collar reds -- Single taxers -- Nationalists -- The paternalist dynasty I : prairie populists -- Preachers of the social gospel -- The paternalist dynasty II : patriotic progressives -- Star-spangled socialists -- Red-white-and-blue reds -- The paternalist dynasty III : new dealers -- Artists in uniform -- Communism is twentieth century Americanism -- Apogee -- SDS -- The paternalist dynasty IV : great society visionaries -- Meet the new Left, same as the old Left -- The personal is the political -- The long march -- The 9/12 Left.