{"product_id":"utopia-drive-erik-reece-9780374537012","title":"Utopia Drive: A Road Trip Through America's Most Radical Idaa","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Erik Reece\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0374537011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374537012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Strauss \u0026amp; Giroux-3pl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/15\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 360\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.98lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.80d","brand":"Erik Reece","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43992964989183,"sku":"9780374537012","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e82f01e1-0c5c-4805-b2ba-79f18a1dda58.jpg?v=1683321781","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/utopia-drive-erik-reece-9780374537012","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}