Readers will find this book stimulating amusing enlightening and engaging.The veteran analyst of political conflict and change has shifted the scale andstyle of... » 

Readers will find this book stimulating amusing enlightening and engaging.The veteran analyst of political conflict and change has shifted the scale andstyle of his analysis once again. The result is a tour de force.VivianaZelizer Princeton University Impressive in scope and ambition in the breadthof knowledge from which it draws in its shrewd and careful use of Tillys ownexperiences in public and scholarly life as well as in illness in its acuteobservations in the materials it uses and not least in the clear nontechnicalprose in which everything is presented.Howard S. Becker author of Tricksof the Trade «