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BOOK REVIEW

Bryan D. Palmer, James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928, University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 2007. pp. xx + 542. US $50.00 cloth.

Individuals form organisations to pursue a common cause. Other than having an interest in common, there will be a spectrum of personality types attracted to any particular cause. Some will want and/or assume leadership functions, while others will be happy to be directed and perform a myriad of functions determined by leaders. The different personas of leaders may range from a hedonist known for his fondness for cognac, foppish clothes, and revelling in a luscious bourgeois life; a vain person, conservative in dress and romantic in spirit, outwardly expressing propriety at the same time as being inwardly driven by a Messianic complex; a schemer, a veritable Tammany chieftain, feared for the files he keeps on others and genuinely despised by most of his opponents as well as a few of his followers; to a more rough and ready leader, plain spoken, easy going, a person seeking to build consensus amongst the various persons and factions attracted to the cause (pp. 203-4).

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