Utopia drive : A road trip through America's most radical idea / Erik Reece.

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Utopia drive : A road trip through America's most radical idea / Erik Reece.

First edition.

9780374710750 (electronic bk.)
0374710759 (electronic bk.)
9780374106577
0374106576

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.

English

1 online resource (x, 346 pages)

HX653 .R44 2016eb

HIS036000 HIS036040

335/.020973

"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 specifically, his country--could be better. He couldn't ignore his conviction that, in fact, the good ol' USA was in the midst of great social, environmental, and political crises--that for the first time in our history, we were being swept into a future that had no future. 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. What followed was a giant road trip and research adventure through the sites of America's utopian communities, both historical and contemporary, known and unknown, successful and catastrophic. What he uncovered was not just a series of lost histories and broken visionaries but also a continuing and vital but hidden idealistic tradition in American intellectual history. 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."-- Provided by publisher
"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"-- Provided by publisher

Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-346).

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