The American as Anarchist

The American as Anarchist

First edition
Author	David DeLeon
Subject	American history
Published	1978 (Johns Hopkins University Press)
Pages	242
ISBN	0-801-82126-6

The American as Anarchist: Reflections on Indigenous Radicalism is a history book about the role of Protestantism, capitalism, and American geography in developing American libertarian sentiment.

Reception

Paul Avrich was disappointed by the book and felt that it covered too much ground with too little specificity. He said it was closer to a "loosely reasoned interpretive essay" than a scholarly monograph, with frequent factual errors and misspelled names. The bibliography, he added, was indiscriminate and too long for the book's scope.

Further reading

• Avrich, Paul (1979). "Review of The American as Anarchist: Reflections on Indigenous Radicalism". The American Historical Review. 84 (5): 1467–1468. doi:10.2307/1861661. ISSN 0002-8762. JSTOR 1861661.
• Barker, Rodney (July 6, 1979). "Rev. of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon by Edward Hyams; Reinventing Anarchy edited by Howard Ehrlich, Carol Ehrlich, David de Leon and Glenda Morris; The American as Anarchist by David de Leon; An Anti-Statist Communist Manifesto by Joseph Lane; Towards a Fresh Revolution by The Friends of Durruti". Tribune. pp. 8–9. ISSN 0041-2821. ProQuest 1866613716.
• Bledstein, Burton J. (1980). "Review of The American as Anarchist: Reflections on Indigenous Radicalism". The Journal of American History. 66 (4): 897–898. doi:10.2307/1887645. ISSN 0021-8723. JSTOR 1887645.
• Conlin, Joseph R. (1979). "Review of The American as Anarchist: Reflections on Indigenous Radicalism". The Wisconsin Magazine of History. 63 (1): 64–65. ISSN 0043-6534. JSTOR 4635385.
• Filler, Louis (1981). "Review of The American as Anarchist: Reflections on Indigenous Radicalism". American Journal of Sociology. 86 (5): 1180–1182. doi:10.1086/227373. ISSN 0002-9602. JSTOR 2778767.
• Gilbert, James (1979). "Review of THE AMERICAN AS ANARCHIST: Reflections on Indigenous Radicalism". American Studies. 20 (2): 89. ISSN 0026-3079. JSTOR 40641464.
• Green, Michael (1980). "Review of CHILDREN OF FANTASY: THE FIRST REBELS OF GREENWICH VILLAGE; THE AMERICAN AS ANARCHIST: REFLECTIONS ON INDIGENOUS RADICALISM". History. 65 (215): 439–441. ISSN 0018-2648. JSTOR 24417445.
• Klehr, Harvey (1979). "Review of The American as Anarchist: Reflections on Indigenous Radicalism". The American Political Science Review. 73 (4): 1126. doi:10.2307/1953999. ISSN 0003-0554. JSTOR 1953999. S2CID 146443795.
• Levine, Andrew (1979). "Review of The American as Anarchist: Reflections on Indigenous Radicalism". Political Science Quarterly. 94 (3): 549–551. doi:10.2307/2150475. ISSN 0032-3195. JSTOR 2150475.
• Oakeshott, Robert (October 1979). "The American as Anarchist, Reflections on Indigenous Radicalism (David De Leon) (Book Review)". The Political Quarterly. 50 (4): 517–519. ISSN 0032-3179 – via EBSCOhost.
• Perlin, Terry M. (January 1, 1982). "DeLeon, David. 'The American as Anarchist: Reflections on Indigenous Radicalism' (Book Review)". Labor History. 23: 438. ISSN 0023-656X. ProQuest 1312149250.
• Reichert, William O. (1980). "Review of The American as Anarchist: Reflections on Indigenous Radicalism.; Communist Cadre: The Social Background of the American Communist Party Elite". The Journal of Politics. 42 (2): 590–592. doi:10.2307/2130482. ISSN 0022-3816. JSTOR 2130482.
• Shor, Francis (1981). "David DeLeon, 'The American as Anarchist: Reflections on Indigenous Radicalism' (Book Review)". Science and Society. 45 (1): 122–124. ISSN 0036-8237 – via ProQuest.
• Theoharis, Athan (1979). "Review of The American as Anarchist: Reflections on Indigenous Radicalism". The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 444: 167–168. doi:10.1177/000271627944400138. ISSN 0002-7162. JSTOR 1042459. S2CID 143709331.
• Woodcock, George (February 24, 1979). "'The American as Anarchist' by David DeLeon (Book Review)". The New Republic. Vol. 180, no. 8. pp. 33–35. ISSN 0028-6583. ProQuest 1301055889.
• Woodcock, George (1980). "Anarchist Phases and Personalities". Queen's Quarterly. 87 (1): 82–96. ISSN 0033-6041. ProQuest 1296885359.
• Woodward, C. Vann (April 5, 1979). "'The American as Anarchist' by David DeLeon (Book Review)". The New York Review of Books. Vol. 26, no. 5. pp. 3–. ISSN 0028-7504 – via ProQuest.
• "Review of The American as Anarchist: Reflections on Indigenous Radicalism". The Wilson Quarterly. 3 (3): 158–159. 1979. ISSN 0363-3276. JSTOR 40255676.

External links

• Full text at the Internet Archive