Abstract
It is hoped that the University of Minnesota Press's editors will come across this review because somebody should at least tell them that they have done a disservice to this provocative book by a young scholar. The book's boring title not only is likely to prove amiss at garnering the attention the volume deserves, but it also fails to capture what the author has accomplished. We already have a number of excellent intellectual histories of the interdisciplinary Frankfurt School of critical theory “in exile” (Jay 1996; Wiggershaus 1998). And there are already plenty of studies devoted to the contributions of its main figures (i.e., Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Erich Fromm, Max Horkheimer, Otto Kirchheimer, Leo Lowenthal, Herbert Marcuse, Franz L. Neumann, and Friedrich Pollock) from the 1930s and 1940s, when Nazism forced the neo-Marxist Institute for Social Research to relocate to Morningside Heights in New York City. Fortunately, Wheatland has done something far more useful than provide yet another overview of the Institute's sprawling work.
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