It Didn't Happen Here : Why Socialism Failed in the United States

Professor Seymour Martin Lipset; Gary Marks
W. W. Norton & Company
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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.

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of American history and political development. This study surveys the various explanations for this phenomenon of American political exceptionalism.