"Books that Shaped America"

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25. bogus for many other reasons

Uh, where the fuck is "Looking Backward"?

The preface of that book calls is "undoubtably the most influential book on social reform ever to be written in America."

wiki says "It was the third-largest bestseller of its time, after Uncle Tom's Cabin and Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.[1] It influenced a large number of intellectuals, and appears by title in many of the major Marxist writings of the day. "It is one of the few books ever published that created almost immediately on its appearance a political mass movement".[2] In the United States alone, over 162 "Bellamy Clubs" sprang up to discuss and propagate the book's ideas.[3] Owing to its commitment to the nationalization of private property, this political movement came to be known as Nationalism, not to be confused with the political concept of nationalism.[4] The novel also inspired several utopian communities."

Further, where is "Progress and Poverty"? 1869

The preface to that book says "It outsold most of the popular novels of the day" and "During his lifetime, he became the 3rd most famous man in the United States, only surpassed in public acclaim by Thomas Edison and Mark Twain.

And "In His steps" "A conservative estimate would be over 22 million copies of In His Steps distributed, the world's record next to the Scriptures."

And Michael Harrington's "The Other America" does not make the list, in spite of the fact that it basically inspired Johnson's "war on poverty"?