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| Publisher | Reason Foundation |
| Publication | Reason |
| Subject | Humanities |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0048-6906 |
| Issues per Year | 11 |
| Volume | v30 |
| Issue | n2 |
| Published | 1998-06-01 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Author | n/a | Nick Gillespie |
| Reviewee | n/a | Wendy M. Grossman |
by Wendy M. Grossman, New York: New York University Press, 236 pages, $21.95
Near where I grew up in New Jersey lie the ruins of a 19th-century Fourierist settlement, a utopian experiment devoted to communal living that lasted about a decade before the participants realized that they simply couldn't bear the sight of each other anymore. My friends and I would ride our bikes past the historical markers and the old foundations and crack jokes about the folly of building paradise in New Jersey, of all places.
The utopian impulse is, of course, one of the bedrock elements...
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