This is a tainted review. For one thing, I’ve known H. W. Benson for many years; we have long been colleagues in the same movements and causes. Benson is, to put it plainly, a “nut” about democracy who had the imagination and persistence to do something about it in a specific way. A skilled machinist and formerly an auto worker in Detroit, he now is executive director of the Association for Union Democracy. Some 20 years ago, with a few meager contributions from friends, well-wishers, and some unionists who needed help, he launched a small periodical, Union Democracy in Action, which was later replaced by the Union Democracy Re...