Reece, Erik,

Utopia drive : a road trip through America's most radical idea / Erik Reece - First edition - x, 346 pages ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-346)

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)

"Eric Reece, author of Lost Mountain and An American Gospel, traces the history of the utopian movement in America and lays out a radical re-visioning of the future of utopian societies"--

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Reece, Erik--Travel


Utopian socialism--History--United States
Utopias--History--United States
Communitarianism--History--United States


History.
Travel writing.

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