He was a partial owner of the Editorial Research Reports, and a book reviewer for The New York Times Magazine.
[2] In 1917, he was hired by the Bureau of National Literature, and authored several books, including The Larger Socialism, published in 1921.
[4] Benedict contended that socialism failed to appear attractive to most Americans because most socialists were born outside the United States and failed to adapt its tenets to the reality of rural America, whose economy was primarily agricultural, not industrial.
[5] In the American Journal of Sociology, Victor E. Helleberg wrote that the book was "an attempt to reconstruct the strategy of socialist campaigning by broadening the outlook and considering carefully the situation in the United States.
"[6] Reviewing it for the Journal of Political Economy, Paul Douglas called it "an extraordinary clear and candid book.