Non-Fiction Wohlforth's most recent book, co-authored with Dennis Tourish, is On the Edge: Political Cults Right and Left. He also wrote his autobiography, The Prophet's Children: Travels on the American Left. He has authored several books on left political theory which are currently out of print. These are: 'Communists' Against Revolution: Two Essays on Postwar Stalinism and Teorias del Socialismo en el Siglo XX. Additionally Wohlforth has written articles for the New Left Review, In These Times, and Against the Current, and he wrote the section on Trotskyism in the Encyclopedia of the Left. Wohlforth is the subject of a Wikipedia entry. On the Edge: Political Cults Right and Left - This ground-breaking analysis of political cults on both the left and right describes the characteristics of cults and explains their importance for mainstream political organizations.   The Prophet's Children: Travels on the American Left - Wohlforth's insightful and moving autobiography details his life on the Left from the dark days of McCarthyism to the collapse of the 1960s student and anti-war movements in the 1970s.   'Communists' Against Revolution: Two Essays on Postwar Stalinism and Teorias del Socialismo en el Siglo XX - Wohlforth's two volumes of cogent political analysis, one in English and the other in Spanish, deal with the expansion of the Soviet Union' state socialist model after World War II. A limited number of copies of these long out-of-print books are available directly from the author.

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