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Utopia Drive: A Road Trip Through America's Most Radical Idea

by Erik Reece
11 CDs. 13:30 hrs. Tantor. Aug. 2016. ISBN 9781515907930. $39.99. digital download. SOC SCI
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Reece (Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia) was looking for ways to address what he sees as American economic and environmental crises. To that end, he began to consider 19th-century American utopian communities for new approaches to agriculture, resources, and our environment. The result is a road trip to visit the sites of these communities and a discussion of what ideas the communities could offer in dealing with social and environmental problems. American utopian communities are often viewed as failures. Reece counters that idea by pointing to their innovations and inventive approach to problem-solving. Reece believes utopian ideas and ideals are useful to forming alternative solutions to economic and environmental concerns. James Patrick Cronin delivers a well-paced narration.
VERDICT Recommended for listeners interested in environmentalism and American history. ["Recommended for readers interested in travel writing, environmentalism, and U.S. history": LJ 7/16 review of the Farrar hc.]
Reviewed by Cynthia Jensen, Gladys Harrington Lib., Plano, TX , Nov 15, 2016
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