"Challenging and engaging on every page...Written with great fluency, carefully researched and richly annotated, this is a superb book." -- Los Angeles Times (Chosen as one of the "100 Best Books of the Year")"In her far-ranging, in-depth study, Spretnak joins the ranks of gifted writers qua intellectual social analysts like Lewis Mumford...Economics, politics, history, sociology, aesthetics, and psychology are [all] brought to bear...lively, accessible, and challenging." -- Publishers Weekly