Daniel Bell is Scholar in Residence at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Harvard University. Michael Kazin is Professor of History at American University and coeditor of Dissent. His many books include War Against War, American Dreamers, and A Godly Hero.

Students... can benefit from reading this book and will find that both the introduction and the afterword contain useful surveys of Bell's critics and competitors.- John Callaghan (Labour History Review)