Looking Backward was the first book to popularize socialist ideas for an American audience.

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"Looking Backward" by Edward Bellamy, published in 1888, was indeed influential in popularizing socialist ideas in the United States, but it was not the first. Earlier works and writings, including those by authors associated with the utopian socialist movement and other political activists before Bellamy's time, also aimed to popularize socialist ideas among American readers.

Looking Backward Was the First Book to Popularize Socialist Ideas