Utopian dreams, American ruptures
How ideals reshape the lives they govern
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Beschreibung
The founder spoke of harmony. The members spoke in whispers. Within three years, neither voice remained.
They arrived with hope and left with silence. Across nineteenth- and twentieth-century America, hundreds of intentional communities rose on the promise of a better world. Some lasted decades. Others dissolved within a single winter. This book traces the inner life of these experiments not through their founders' manifestos, but through the everyday friction between belief and behavior. When a community declares itself perfect, what happens to doubt?
Autor*in
Ryan Holloway
Writes investigative nonfiction about hidden industries, economic power, and forgotten American infrastructure.
Themen in »Utopian dreams, American ruptures«
utopian communities history failed social experiments America Shaker village life Fourier phalanx Owenite settlements intentional community collapse American communal living