Explores the failure of the socialist movement in the US. Draws on contrasts with other industrialized countries and extensive comparisons within the US at the state and city level to promote understanding of how factors such as American values, political structure, and the split between the Socialist Party and mainstream unions combined to seal socialism's fate. Lipset teaches public policy at George Mason University; Marks is professor of political science and founding director of the Center for European Studies at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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

Politics & Social Sciences

Gary Marks

Seymour Martin Lipset

Politics & Government

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

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Rocking Wall Street: Four Powerful Strategies That will Shake Up the Way You Invest, Build Your Wealth And Give You Your Life Back

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Economics

wiley

Rocking Wall Street: Four Powerful Strategies That Will Shake Up the Way You Invest, Build Your Wealth and Give You Your Life Back

John Mauldin

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