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Not that one shouldn't read the book (that one has been on my list for years, recently re-read his classic piece in Studies on the Left on Woodrow Wilson and Corporate Liberalism in the anthology of pieces that Vintage/Random House published in 1970 edited by Weinstein and David Eakins) [btw, the debate with Harold Cruse in that volume is worth a look see, too] A co-thinker, James Livingston, has a very interesting looking book of a few yrs. ago, "Pragmatism and the political economy of cultural revolution, 1850-1940, " http://www.uparis10.fr/ActuelMarx/economarx/ab090402.htm ) but, here is a shorter version of his argument for the those with too many pots on the stove. (Capitalism and Socialism in the Emergence of Modern America: The Formative Era, 1890's-1916) http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~shgape/sklar2.html Michael Pugliese P.S. The article by Sklar in an issue of Radical America from 1970 on "disaccumulationalist" capitalism, is a fine read too. Maybe it is collected in his book of essays, "The United States as a Developing Country: Studies in U.S. History in the Progressive Era and the 1920's." P.P.S. A good critique by Fred Block of "corporate liberal" theory was published in Social Problems. Feb. 1977. The title was, "Beyond Corporate Liberalism." http://sociology.ucdavis.edu/grad/cv/Block_CV.pdf