John Spargo and American Socialism

This is the first complete biography of John Spargo, a key popularizer of evolutionary socialism in the Socialist Party of America in the early twentieth century. One of the earliest forerunners of neoconservatism, he played a central role in constructing American anticommunism after 1917 and, as a Republican from the 1920s through the early 1960s, he developed imaginative new renditions of social democracy designed to make it relevant for American conditions and mindset.