Mark C. Smith is Assistant Professor of American Studies and History at the University of Texas, Austin.

"As a collective intellectual biography of some of the foremost social science thinkers of the early to mid-century, this book provides perhaps the clearest picture yet of the dilemmas facing the scholar-as-democratic reformer. Smith manages a judicious blend of the personal biography and individual career path with a penetrating account of the subject's main writings and intellectual contributions. His book should be read by a large, interdisciplinary audience."-Leon Fink, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill "This is a superb piece of work. There is nothing quite like this book in the available literature and it will nicely supplement the best of previously published accounts of the history of social science in the United States. It is also an important intervention in the current debate about the decline of the public intellectual."-Robert Westbrook, University of Rochester

• Introduction 31. American Social Science: Moralism and the Scientific Method 132. Wesley Mitchell and the Quantitative Approach 493. Charles Merriam and Technical Expertise 844. Robert Lynd and Knowledge for What? 1205. Charles Beard and Activist Social Science 1596. Harold D. Lasswell and the Lost Opportunity of the Purposive School 212Conclusion 253Notes 271Index 336

Mark C. Smith is Assistant Professor of American Studies and History at the University of Texas, Austin.

"As a collective intellectual biography of some of the foremost social science thinkers of the early to mid-century, this book provides perhaps the clearest picture yet of the dilemmas facing the scholar-as-democratic reformer. Smith manages a judicious blend of the personal biography and individual career path with a penetrating account of the subject's main writings and intellectual contributions. His book should be read by a large, interdisciplinary audience."-Leon Fink, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill "This is a superb piece of work. There is nothing quite like this book in the available literature and it will nicely supplement the best of previously published accounts of the history of social science in the United States. It is also an important intervention in the current debate about the decline of the public intellectual."-Robert Westbrook, University of Rochester

• Introduction 31. American Social Science: Moralism and the Scientific Method 132. Wesley Mitchell and the Quantitative Approach 493. Charles Merriam and Technical Expertise 844. Robert Lynd and Knowledge for What? 1205. Charles Beard and Activist Social Science 1596. Harold D. Lasswell and the Lost Opportunity of the Purposive School 212Conclusion 253Notes 271Index 336

Mark C. Smith is Assistant Professor of American Studies and History at the University of Texas, Austin.

"As a collective intellectual biography of some of the foremost social science thinkers of the early to mid-century, this book provides perhaps the clearest picture yet of the dilemmas facing the scholar-as-democratic reformer. Smith manages a judicious blend of the personal biography and individual career path with a penetrating account of the subject's main writings and intellectual contributions. His book should be read by a large, interdisciplinary audience."-Leon Fink, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill "This is a superb piece of work. There is nothing quite like this book in the available literature and it will nicely supplement the best of previously published accounts of the history of social science in the United States. It is also an important intervention in the current debate about the decline of the public intellectual."-Robert Westbrook, University of Rochester

• Introduction 31. American Social Science: Moralism and the Scientific Method 132. Wesley Mitchell and the Quantitative Approach 493. Charles Merriam and Technical Expertise 844. Robert Lynd and Knowledge for What? 1205. Charles Beard and Activist Social Science 1596. Harold D. Lasswell and the Lost Opportunity of the Purposive School 212Conclusion 253Notes 271Index 336