afreema3's review against another edition
Read for my class America and the Radical Tradition
booksaremyjam's review against another edition
4.0
I have to say, this is one of the better history-esque books I've read in a long time.
The book is structured as such: starting before the American Revolution and ending in the mid-late 1800's, Lynd's book takes different ideologies from the times and smooshes them all together. It sounds complicated but it reads like a dialogue between a bunch of intelligent men, pondering what a good society should be based around.
I find that books such as this are usually bland and you want to burn them afterward but Lynd has achieved an easy reading style to a book chock full of interesting people, telling us what their Utopia is.
If you want to know how we have the government we have and what other options were, pick this up.
The book is structured as such: starting before the American Revolution and ending in the mid-late 1800's, Lynd's book takes different ideologies from the times and smooshes them all together. It sounds complicated but it reads like a dialogue between a bunch of intelligent men, pondering what a good society should be based around.
I find that books such as this are usually bland and you want to burn them afterward but Lynd has achieved an easy reading style to a book chock full of interesting people, telling us what their Utopia is.
If you want to know how we have the government we have and what other options were, pick this up.
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