Utopia drive : a road trip through America's most radical idea
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
Status
Central - Adult Nonfiction
307.77 REECE
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307.77 REECE
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
x, 346 pages ; 22 cm
Street Date
1608
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-346).
Description
"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.
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"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.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Reece, E. (2016). Utopia drive: a road trip through America's most radical idea (First edition.). Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Reece, Erik. 2016. Utopia Drive: A Road Trip Through America's Most Radical Idea. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Reece, Erik. Utopia Drive: A Road Trip Through America's Most Radical Idea Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Reece, Erik. Utopia Drive: A Road Trip Through America's Most Radical Idea First edition., Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
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