A libertarian walks into a bear : the utopian plot to liberate an American town (and some bears) /
Once upon a time, a group of libertarians got together and hatched the Free Town Project, a plan to take over an American town and completely eliminate its government. In 2004, Grafton, New Hampshire, a barely populated settlement with one paved road, turned that plan into reality. Public funding fo...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
PublicAffairs, Hachette Book Group,
[2020]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | Once upon a time, a group of libertarians got together and hatched the Free Town Project, a plan to take over an American town and completely eliminate its government. In 2004, Grafton, New Hampshire, a barely populated settlement with one paved road, turned that plan into reality. Public funding for pretty much everything shrank, the fire department, the library, the schoolhouse. State and federal laws didn't disappear, but they got quieter, meek suggestions barely heard in the town's thick wilderness. The bears, on the other hand, were increasingly visible. Grafton's freedom-loving citizens ignored hunting laws and regulations on food disposal. They built a tent city, in an effort to get off the grid. And with a large and growing local bear population, conflict became inevitable. A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear is both a screwball comedy and the story of a radically American commitment to freedom. Full of colorful characters, puns and jokes, and one large social experiment, it is a quintessentially American story, a bearing of our national soul. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 274 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-274). |
| ISBN: | 9781541788510 1541788516 |