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The S Word: A Short History of an American Tradition…Socialism

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A few months before the 2010 midterms, Newt Gingrich described the socialist infiltration of American government and media as “even more disturbing than the threats from foreign terrorists.” John Nichols offers an unapologetic retort to the return of red-baiting in American political life—arguing that socialism has a long, proud, American history. Tom Paine was enamored of early socialists, Horace Greeley employed Karl Marx as a correspondent, and Helen Keller was an avowed socialist. The “S”…

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Bellamy wasn’t the only socialist who had a profound impact on American political culture. Emma Lazarus was a poet and socialist, who wrote the lines that appear on the Statue of Liberty (“‘Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…”)

If anyone is interested in the forgotten history of socialism in America, check this book out.

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John Nichols

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The S Word: A Short History of an American Tradition…Socialism

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