"Lectures given on the campus of the University of Illinois from October, 1965 through April, 1966 under the auspices of an ad hoc faculty committee. The series was entitled 'Leaders of social and political movements in the 1930's."

Introduction, by R. J. Simon.--Radicalism in the thirties: the Trotskyist view, by M. Shachtman.--The Huey Long movement, by G. L. K. Smith.--Writers in the thirties, by G. Hicks.--The thirties in America as a Socialist recalls them, by N. Thomas.--My experience in the labor and radical struggles of the thirties, by A. J. Muste.--The student movement of the thirties: a political history, by H. Draper.--My years with Roosevelt, by B. K. Wheeler.--The American Communist Party in the thirties, by E. Browder.