{"product_id":"9780374537012","title":"Utopia Drive : A Road Trip Through America's Most Radical Idea","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eUtopia Drive\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Erik Reece\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\" …  an engaging exploration -- and example -- of the fruitful tunnel-visions of dreamers turned doers.\" - \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780374537012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40621551452366,"sku":"9780374537012","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780374537012","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}