This volume rescues from the oblivion of out-of-the-way journals and unpublished occasions some thirty essays, lectures and commentaries by John Seeley, the sociologist, who is likely to be known outside of his field through his classic community study, Crestwood Heights. The volume derives its title from its opening article, which originally appeared in the Atlantic Monthly in 1961; an article having to do with some of the social and intellectual outgrowths of the psychoanalytic seed planted in the American mind. Though most of the pieces continue to be informed by psychoanalysis (dilute rather than revisionistic), a better title might have been Sociologist-at-Large; for Seeley's