Utopia Drive: A Road Trip Through America's Most Radical Idea
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| Rating | : | 4.32 (894 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0374537011 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 360 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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"An interesting on the ground survey of Utopian communities past" according to Niala. An interesting on the ground survey of Utopian communities past and present in the US. The author has a partisan view, at time disarmingly naive, of the various ideologies and "monetary systems" that drove the various communes, but in a certain way it add to the interest in reading about the. Intentional Communities alan french anyone interested in thinking about the problems and opportunities of democracy as a political system will find this book both entertaining and instructive. It is a well-written combination of both history and evaluation. Thinking about "the commons", non-growth based economic systems, and w. Quite a ride! G Erik's every stop on this odessy opened vistas into a unique utopian community essence. Reese gets you there!
history." ---Library Journal . "Recommended for readers interested in travel writing, environmentalism, and U.S
For Erik Reece, life, at last, was good: he was newly married, gainfully employed, living in a creekside cabin in his beloved Kentucky woods. Utopia Drive is an important and definitive reconstruction of that tradition. It is also, perhaps, a new framework to help us find a genuinely sustainable way forward." … an engaging exploration -- and example -- of the fruitful tunnel-visions of dreamers turned doers." - Publishers Weekly. Where did we--here, in the land of Jeffersonian optimism and better tomorrows--go wrong? Rather than despair, Reece turned to those who had dared to imagine radically different futures for America. He couldn't ignore his conviction that, in fact, the good ol' U
He has also written for Harper’s Magazine, The Nation, and OrionMagazine. Erik Reece is the author of Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness; Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia; and An American Gospel: On Family, History, and the Kingdom of God. . He is currently the writer in residence at the University of Kentucky i