?As a work of scholarship at once sound, sage and stimulating, The Genesis of Georges Sorel is one of the best books on Sorel ever to have been published....Professor Meisel's treatment is distinghished by an almost impeccable scholarship, sweetened by the apt allusions of an alert and literate mind and by a lucid and occasionally witty style. ...As it stands, The Genesis of Georges Sorel is a definitive study, thoughtful and balanced, rich and suggestive.?-Political Science Quarterly