In this new collection of his most acute and durable political writing, readers will recognize the spirit of indignation and hope Goodman first roused in the 1960s with Growing Up Absurd. "Stoehr tells his [Goodman's] story well.This is the genuine kind of decentralism."--The Nation

Taylor Stoehr is Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. For fifteen years he has headed the Changing Lives Through Literature program for probations of Dorchester District Court, the busiest criminal court of Massachusetts. He is author of six previous books on literary and cultural history, has translated two volumes of poetry, and has edited twenty books by social critics of the sixties, Paul Goodman, and George Dennison.