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Utopia drive : a road trip through America's most radical idea /

"For Erik Reece, life, at last, was good: he was newly married, gainfully employed, living in a creekside cabin in his beloved Kentucky woods. It sounded, as he describes it, "like a country song with a happy ending." And yet he was still haunted by a sense that the world--or, more sp...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reece, Erik (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Reece, Erik > Travel.
Utopian socialism > United States > History.
Utopias > United States > History.
Communitarianism > United States > History.
HISTORY > United States > General.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
Communitarianism.
Utopian socialism.
Utopias.
History.
Travel writing.
Table of Contents:
  • Nonesuch (Woodford County, Kentucky)
  • The new creation (Pleasant Hill, Kentucky)
  • Monk's Pond (Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani Monastery: Bardstown, Kentucky)
  • A beautiful failure (New Harmony, Indiana)
  • A simple act of moral commerce (Cincinnati and Utopia, Ohio)
  • How should people live? (Twin Oaks: Louisa, Virginia)
  • A clearinghouse for dreams (Utopia Parkway: Queens, New York)
  • The Pine Barrens anarchists (Modern Times: Long Island, New York)
  • Hunger not to have but to be (Walden Pond: Concord, Massachusetts)
  • Some heartbreak, much happiness (Oneida, New York)
  • What if? (Niagara Falls, Canada).