the general reader will be ... concerned with the account of the School's efforts to decide what social science is and how it should be practised, which Dahrendorf is probably better equipped than anybody to describe. and which he does describe with much skill ... centenaries demand centenary histories, and this intelligent, involved, lively and readable history is worthy of the occasion.
Ralf Dahrendorf (Lord Dahrendorf) is a former Director of the LSE and now Warden of St Antony's College, Oxford.
He is the author of over 40 books, including Class and Conflict in Industrial Society (1959), and The Modern Social Conflict (1988)