A prolific author now in his mid seventies (Etzioni) looks back at his career as a social thinker, opinion-writer, and activist.

Edmund Fawcett, Book Review Digest

...a cautionary tale for all would-be public intellectuals.

Robert S. Boynton, Book Review Digest

In this revealing memoir, Amitai Etzioni tells the story of his personal odyssey-as a young Israeli soldier, a determined student, a devoted family man, a distinguished academic, and an activist intellectual. He has drawn from modern sociology a latent yet vibrant public philosophy. In this book he opens his life and his heart; and he describes the inner workings of a social movement struggling to be born. This story will interest all who have been intrigued by the communitarian message.

Philip Selznick, University of California, Berkeley

Amitai Etzioni has been a communitarian pioneer because he has adapted communitarian ideas to the purposes of concrete and non-reactionary public policy, even as he has labored to harmonize a communitarian interest in civic responsibility with a liberal concern for individual rights. He has fostered a relatively progressive communitarian agenda and managed to wrest from the Right its sense of proprietorship over communitarian ideas.

Benjamin Barber, author of Jihad vs. McWorld and Strong Democracy