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Lipset, Seymour Martin.Agrarian Socialism: The Cooperative Commonwealth Federation in Saskatchewan, A Study in Political Sociology. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1950. A revised edition was published by Anchor (New York: 1968).
Lipset, Seymour Martin, with M. Trow and J. Coleman.Union Democracy: The Internal Politics of the International Typographical Union. New York: The Free Press, 1956.
Lipset, Seymour Martin.Political Man: The Social Bases of Politics. New York: Doubleday, 1960.
Lipset, Seymour Martin.The First New Nation: The United States in Historical and Comparative Perspective. New York: Basic Books, 1963. A revised edition was published by Norton (New York: 1979).
Lipset, Seymour Martin, with Earl Raab.The Politics of Unreason: Right-Wing Extremism in America, 1790–1970. New York: Harper & Row, 1970.
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A specialist in comparative labor and working-class history, he is the author of Labor and the Left: A Study of Socialist and Radical Influences in the American Labor Movement, 1881–1924; Failure of a Dream? Essays in the History of American Socialism,coedited with Lipset; and Reluctant Proletarians: A Comparative Study of American Socialism.A second edition of Failure of a Dream?will be published in 1984 by the University of California Press.
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Laslett, J.H.M. Pluralism, liberalism, and history: Seymour martin lipset and his worldview. Society 20, 64–68 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02695009
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