Introduction : "Workers of the world, read!""The workingman's bible" and the making of American socialism -- Charles H. Kerr & Company and the Americanization of Marxian socialism -- Activist readers and American socialists' print culture of dissent -- How the Socialist Party created a print culture of dissent without a party-owned press -- Information management and the Socialist Party's Information Department and Research Bureau -- Annotations on the failure of socialism in America -- Conclusion : What a book cannot do.