Poet and Journalist Max Eastman is perhaps the most famous example of an American intellectual who moved across the entire political spectrum. This re-examination of his career and place in history reveals the dynamics behind his careers and political transformations, offering insight into one of the most influential writers of the 20th century.

William L. O'Neill is professor of history at Rutgers University, and the author of numerous books on recently American history, including A Better World: Stalinism and the American Intellectuals and Feminism in America: A History, both available from Transaction.

Introduction to the Transaction Edition, Acknowledgments, Introduction to the Original Edition, Youth 1883-1912, Starting Out 1912-1916, Love and War 1914-1917, Defiant Years 1918-1922, Political Writings 1918-1922, The Great Adventure 1922-1928, Politics and Literature 1924-1934, The Red Decade Begins 1930-1934, The Unmaking of a Socialist 1933-1940, Politics 1940-1945, Politics and Literature 1942-1969, Eastman in His Prime, Last Years 1949-1969, Notes, Index