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Mar 18, 1922 — Dec 31, 2006· 84 yrs

UNITED STATES AUTHOR · POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT · HISTORY

Seymour Martin Lipset

Also known as: Seymour Lipset, Lipset, Seymour Martin, 1922-2006

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American sociologist and political scientist.

Harlem, United States
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Born out of revolution, the United States is a country organized around an ideology which includes a set of dogmas about the nature of a good society.

— from American exceptionalism?

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The politics of unreason

1970

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"Analyzes the role of right-wing extremist politics in American life from 1790 until the present ... ranging from the Anti-Masonic Party, the Know-Nothings, and the American Protective Association ... to the Ku Klux Klan, the John Birch Society, the George Wallace campaigns of recent times, and assorted proto-fascist movements"--Back cover.

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Continental divide

2004

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"Moving on to higher things from his job in a community college, former sixties activist Michael Bern finds that his partner has thrown a surprise fifty-fifth party in his honour, at which she and his friends present him with his FBI file (with dramatized extracts, of course). In the file, Michael finds proof that one of an eight-strong group of activists was an FBI informer. His career and relationship threatened by his discovery, Michael sets forth to find the eight, a quest which takes him from a political campaign to a ghetto neighborhood, from a gated community to a beachside fundraiser, from a group of hippy treesitters deep in the redwood forests to the site of a vital governor's debate. On the journey, Michael discovers what happened to his former friends, but more profoundly, what has happened to himself."--Publisher's website.

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American exceptionalism?

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In this timely new study, one of our major political analysts, Seymour Martin Lipset, explores the deeply held but often inarticulated beliefs that shape America's society and thought. Is this country in the throes of a revolution from the right? Is it in decline morally? Is Japan about to replace us as the leading economic power? Why does the United States have the highest crime rate, the most persons per capita in prison? Why is our electoral turnout so low? Why are we the most open, socially mobile society and the most unequally developed nation in income distribution? Why is America the most religious country in Christendom? What explains our persistently high rate of opposition to wars and, conversely, our propensity for flag waving and expressions of patriotic enthusiasm? As the 1996 election year begins, Professor Lipset examines the remarkable persistence of an American creed, a double-edged sword that provides both good and bad, offering fresh insights into our culture and its future.

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