"This survey of the political writings of Perry Anderson explores the evolution of an influential current of new leftist thinking that has developed in the last 50 years and reviews its engagement with critical theorists such as Ernst Brenner, Francis Fukuyama, and Federic Jameson. Anderson is the editor of the <I>New Left Review</I> and a professor at University of California at Los Angeles, where he published articles on a range of European Marxist opinions including Deutscher, Gramsci, Sartre, Lukács, Althusser, and Poulantzas. Anderson's contributions to political theory are recorded and illuminated in terms of postmodern and leftist theory."