See Leon Samson and Warren Susman on, "Americanism, " as functional/ideological/symbolic substitute for socialism in Amerikkkan mass consciousness in the first edition of, "Failure of a Dream? Essays in the History of American Socialism, " ed. by John H.M. Laslett and S.M. Lipset, Doubleday Books, 1974. Most of the classic essays are there including Stuaghton Lynd, James Weinstein, Daniel Bell, Michael Rogin, Werner Sombart, Melvyn Dubofsky, Louis Hartz, Phillip Foner, Ann J. Lane and Paul Buhle. The 2nd. revised ed. from U.C. Press is shorter. Michael Pugliese, WHO?