James B. Gilbert is professor of history at the University of Maryland and taught at Amsterdam University and the University of Paris. He has written numerous books, including Another Chance: America After World War II, The Pursuit of Liberty, and Perfect Cities: Chicago's Utopias in the 1890's, which was a New York Times Notable Book of 1991.

Introduction to the Morningside Edition
Introduction
The New Paganism
Three Bohemias
Revolution and Renaissance
The First Partisan Review
The New Generation
Part I: The Intellectual as Revolutionary
Part II: Kulturbolschewismus: The Middlebrow Counterrevolution
The Politics of Collision
The Failure of Nerve
Bibliographic Essay
Index