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It Didn't Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States
Contributor(s): Lipset, Seymour Martin (Author), Marks, Gary (Joint Author)

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 ISBN: 0393322548     ISBN-13: 9780393322545
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
OUR PRICE: $23.75  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: September 2001
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Annotation: A poet and funeral director continues to examine the relationship between the "literary and mortuary" arts in essays speaking to the existentials: between being human and ceasing to be, between birth and death, we are bodies in motion and at rest.
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Political Ideologies - Radicalism
- History | United States - 20th Century
- Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism
Dewey: 335
LCCN: 00021489
Physical Information: 0.91" H x 5.08" W x 7.46" L (0.75 lbs) 374 pages
Features: Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
 
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Publisher Description:
Why socialism has failed to play a significant role in the United States--the most developed capitalist industrial society and hence, ostensibly, fertile ground for socialism--has been a critical question of American history and political development. Seymour Martin Lipset and Gary Marks survey with subtlety and shrewd judgment the various explanations (Wall Street Journal) for this phenomenon of American political exceptionalism. Clearly written, intelligent, filled with new information (Times Literary Supplement), this splendidly convincing (Michael Kazin, Georgetown University) work eschews conventional arguments about socialism's demise to present a fuller understanding of how multiple factors--political structure, American values, immigration, and the split between the Socialist party and mainstream unions--combined to seal socialism's fate. In peak form, two master political sociologists offer a must-read synthesis.--Theda Skocpol, Harvard University

Contributor Bio(s): Lipset, Seymour Martin: - Seymour Martin Lipset is the Hazel Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University and a fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
 
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