This classic history of anarchism in the United States is the starting point for anyone concerned with the antecedents of libertarianism in the United States. This book brought back into view a tradition which almost disappeared between the beginning of the First World War and the end of the Second ¾ the philosophy and deeds of antistatist libertarian voluntarism in the United States during the three generations which flourished between 1825 and 1910, in a style which a London commentator described as a "model of readable scholarship."
Among the individualist anarchists covered are Josiah Warren, Ezra Heywood, William B. Greene, J.K. Ingalls, Stephen Pearl Andrews, Lysander Spooner, and Benjamin Tucker.
Must reading for all interested in individualism and anarchism.