Lipset's big question. (Review).(It Didn't Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States ) From: Public Interest | Date: June 22, 2002| Author: Glazer, Nathan | COPYRIGHT 2002 The National Affairs, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

SEYMOUR Martin Lipset and Gary Marks' It Didn't Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States + represents Lipset's most recent and most substantial entry in his 50-year effort to understand why socialism made no great impact in the United States, while it succeeded--in the sense of creating mass parties with opportunities to govern--in the other major industrial societies. (Since I will consider this book in the context of Professor Lipset's involvement with this problem ...