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Utopia Drive: A Road Trip Through America's Most Radical Idea by Erik Reece
4.0
Utopia Drive reads like a podcast I'd love to listen to.
The conceit is fairly basic, where a writer is visiting a series of historically Utopian villages and communes in the United States over a period of time, giving a bit of history as well as present-day affairs in many cases, and providing those findings as well as the context of the times they were in place and the relationship to the now.
It's a fairly basic premise and it mostly works - the author does get onto a bit of sermonizing during some of his stops and descriptions, but that is perhaps the only significant flaw in what is an otherwise fun and most breezy read on an under-covered topic for modern histories. Definitely recommend that you take some time with this.
The conceit is fairly basic, where a writer is visiting a series of historically Utopian villages and communes in the United States over a period of time, giving a bit of history as well as present-day affairs in many cases, and providing those findings as well as the context of the times they were in place and the relationship to the now.
It's a fairly basic premise and it mostly works - the author does get onto a bit of sermonizing during some of his stops and descriptions, but that is perhaps the only significant flaw in what is an otherwise fun and most breezy read on an under-covered topic for modern histories. Definitely recommend that you take some time with this.