The abolitionists. The abolitionist background
William Lloyd Garrison : apostolic crusader
John Brown : a fanatic in action
Wendell Phillips : agitator for the common good
The Utopians. The Utopian background
Margaret Fuller : transcendental rebel
Albert Brisbane : social dreamer
Edward Bellamy : social planner
The anarchists. The anarchist background
Henry David Thoreau : transcendental individualist
Benjamin R. Tucker : individualist anarchist
Emma Goldman : anarchist rebel
The dissident economists. The economic background
Henry George : prophet of human rights
Brooks Adams : Jeremian critic of capitalism
Thorstein Veblen : iconoclastic economist
The militant liberals. The liberal background
John Peter Altgeld : pioneer progressive
Lincoln Steffens : muckraker's progress
Randolph Bourne : the history of a literary radical
The socialists. The socialist background
Daniel De Leon : apostle of socialism
Eugene Victor Debs : evangelical socialist
John Reed : rebel into revolutionary.