Challenging what he sees as a foundational myth of European integration as a linear and solely post-war process, Bailey (history, The Open U. and Oxford U., England) describes and comparatively analyzes earlier visions of European integration articulated by German-speaking intellectuals acting within three civil society organizations in the interwar and early postwar years: the group associated with the production of the cultural journal Merkur: Deutsche Zeitschrift für europäisches Denken; the socialist political party, Internationaler Socialistischer Kampfbund; and Das Demokratische Deutschland, a cross-party coalition of exiles from Nazi Germany based in Switzerland. Annotation ©2014 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)