John Waggoner's superb translation of and commentary on Joly's <i>Dialogue</i>--the first faithful translation in English--seeks not only to update the sordid legacy of the <i>The Protocols of the Elders of Zion</i> but to redeem Joly's original work for serious study in its own right, rather than through the lens of antisemitism. Waggoner's work vindicates a man who was neither an antisemite nor a supporter of the kind of tyrannical politics the <i>Protocols</i> subsequently served, and presents Maurice Joly, once much maligned and too long ignored, as one of the nineteenth century's foremost political thinkers.