{"product_id":"utopia-drive-a-road-trip-through-americas-most-radical-idea-paperback","title":"Utopia Drive: A Road Trip Through America's Most Radical Idea - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eErik Reece\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor 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? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRather 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. \u003ci\u003eUtopia Drive\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\" ... an engaging exploration -- and example -- of the fruitful tunnel-visions of dreamers turned doers.\" - \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eErik Reece\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of\u003ci\u003e Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eRadical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eAn American Gospel: On Family, History, and the Kingdom of God\u003c\/i\u003e. He has also written for \u003ci\u003eHarper's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eOrion\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMagazine\u003c\/i\u003e. He is currently the writer in residence at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, where he teaches environmental journalism, writing, and literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 360\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.25 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 15, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45336676630630,"sku":"9780374537012","price":36.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/TXN2d2cvM2JzRUpuU2dVUkgzYWQ2UT09.webp?v=1774615798","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/utopia-drive-a-road-trip-through-americas-most-radical-idea-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}