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1984 University of California Press paperback. 584 pages. rated good condition. Contrary to most popular beliefs, the United States has an indigenous socialist tradition which exerted a significant influence both in the labor movement and in American politics in the years before the first world war. In 1912 the Socialist Party of America had more that a thousand of its members in public office as mayors, state assemblymen, and other elected officials, and Eugene V. Debs received near
