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Near the conclusion of Red Vienna and the Golden Age of Psychology, 1918-1938, the authors state that they set out to correct the historical record in order to credit the important contributions to psychoanalysis by some of the former Viennese psychologists who settled in California after the Anschluss—mostly their teachers Charlotte and Karl Bühler, Rudolph Eckstein, Hedda Bolgar, and to some extent Bruno Bettelheim. They say that they relied heavily on eyewitness accounts and on excerpts from secondary sources about influential Viennese politicians and intellectuals (p. 247). Clearly, their mentors' reminiscences led them to identify with the hopes that the fusion of psychoanalysis and Marxism had promised to humanity in those years—as their theories were being developed and then applied in the public schools through “progressive” education and developmental psychology. To that end, the authors set out to give us a coherent picture of the interactions between Vienna's left-oriented politicians and the psychologists with whom they associated. But they fail to state precisely