Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface: Critical Theory and the United States -- Introduction: A Brief History of the Frankfurt School before Its Arrival in the United States -- Part I. Critical Theory on Morningside Heights -- 1. New York Transit: An Invitation to Columbia University -- 2. Failure and the Mythologies of Exile: The Frankfurt School's Years at Columbia University -- Part II. The Owl of Minerva Comes to New York -- 3. John Dewey's Pit Bull: Sidney Hook and the Confrontation between Pragmatism and Critical Theory -- 4. Crosstown Traffic: The New York Intellectuals Encounter Critical Theory -- Part III. Critical Theory and the Rise of Postwar Sociology -- 5. The Atlantic Divide: Building Bridges between Anglo-American Empiricism and Continental Social Theory -- 6. Assimilation and Acceptance: Studies in Prejudice -- Part IV. Message in a Bottle -- 7. Specters of Marx: The Frankfurt School in the Era of the New Left -- 8. Marcuse's Mentors: The American Counterculture and the Guru of the New Left -- Conclusion: The Frankfurt School's American Legacy -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.