Jarol B. Manheim. Biz-War and the Out-of-Power Elite: The Progressive-Left Attack on the Corporation. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004. xii + 216 pp. ISBN 0-8058-5068-6, $34.50 (cloth).

Over the past ten years a large, diverse, and increasingly sophisticatedliterature has emerged to explain the decline—indeed thedeath—of liberalism and the rise of the New Right to politicaldominance. Jarol Manheim argues that the death knell for liberalismand the left has been rung too soon. While conservatism currentlyis the dominant American ideology, Biz-War contends that itfaces a real threat from a reinvigorated left now known by anew, less pejorative name, the Progressive movement. Manheim’s     

Rosemary Feurer. Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950

For more than a decade, workers in the Midwest electrical manufacturingindustry, as well as many other blue-collar workers in the Americanheartland, rallied around an openly Communist union organizerwho promised to deliver an alternative vision of democracy andeconomic development. William Sentner's ability to thrive inwhat one would expect to be a hostile environment for Leftistsrested on a community-based organizing strategy attuned moreto local conditions than national or international events. Thisstory, Rosemary Feurer suggests, holds