Although Stephen Pearl Andrews's few admirers might well admit that the man is nearly forgotten, his influence remains real and abiding. Andrews was a passionate publicist for nearly every cause of the mid-nineteenth-century reform era--abolition, phonology, universal language, Fourierism, individualist anarchism, phrenology, spiritualism, women's rights, free love, hydrotherapy, communism, temperance, and Swedenborgianism--not to mention his own original contributions to the ferment, Pantarchy and Universology. With the anarchist Josiah Warren he founded Modern Times, one of the more notorious (and perhaps most colorful) of the nineteenth-century utopian communities. He managed the campaign of Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for president of the United States. He published the Communist Manifesto (1848) of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels for the first time in the United States. Andrews wrote and published incessantly and voluminously. The ideas he supported (such as "Individual Sovereignty") filtered into the mix of American language and persisted...