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'''''Looking Backward: 2000 - 1887''''' is a [[utopia|utopian]] novel by [[Edward Bellamy]] credited with first introducing [[socialism]] in the United States by members of the [[Socialist Party of America]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Heath |first1=Frederic |year=1900 |title=Social democracy red book |publisher=Debs publishing Company |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=46A0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA64 |pages=64-65 }}</ref>
It was the third best-selling book of its era, behind [[Uncle Tom's Cabin]] and Ben-Hur.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mattern |first1=MArk |year=2006 |title=Putting Ideas to Work: A Practical Introduction to Political Thought |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |pages=154 }}</ref>
==Progressivism==
[[Jonah Goldberg]], author of the book [[Liberal Fascism]] argues that the publication of Looking Backward signifies a singular event that, more than any other, marks the beginning of what would become the [[Progressive Era]].
<ref>{{cite book |last1=Goldberg |first1=Jonah |year=2008 |title=Liberal Fascism |publisher=Random House |pages=215 |quote=It's hard to fix a specific starting date for the progressive race for the Great Society, but a good guess might be 1888, the year Edward Bellamy's novel ''Looking Backward'' burst on the American scene. One of the most influential works of progressive propaganda ever conceived.}}</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
==External links==
* [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/624 Looking Backward: 2000-1887] - [[Project Gutenberg]]
* [https://librivox.org/looking-backward-2000-1887-by-edward-bellamy/ Looking Backward: 2000-1887] - [[LibriVox]]
It was the third best-selling book of its era, behind [[Uncle Tom's Cabin]] and Ben-Hur.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mattern |first1=MArk |year=2006 |title=Putting Ideas to Work: A Practical Introduction to Political Thought |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |pages=154 }}</ref>
==Progressivism==
[[Jonah Goldberg]], author of the book [[Liberal Fascism]] argues that the publication of Looking Backward signifies a singular event that, more than any other, marks the beginning of what would become the [[Progressive Era]].
<ref>{{cite book |last1=Goldberg |first1=Jonah |year=2008 |title=Liberal Fascism |publisher=Random House |pages=215 |quote=It's hard to fix a specific starting date for the progressive race for the Great Society, but a good guess might be 1888, the year Edward Bellamy's novel ''Looking Backward'' burst on the American scene. One of the most influential works of progressive propaganda ever conceived.}}</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
==External links==
* [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/624 Looking Backward: 2000-1887] - [[Project Gutenberg]]
* [https://librivox.org/looking-backward-2000-1887-by-edward-bellamy/ Looking Backward: 2000-1887] - [[LibriVox]]