“…Originating in northern England around the year 1300, the poem was frequently copied in the north before appearing in a southern version in substantially altered form. …”

“…From Anne Hutchinson in colonial New England to the New Left of the 1960s, DeLeon underscores a tradition of radical protest that has endured in American history—a tradition of native anarchism that is fundamentally different from the radicalism of Europe, the Soviet Union, or nations of the Third World. …”