{"product_id":"utopia-drive-a-road-trip-through-americas-most-radical-idea-0374537011","title":"Utopia Drive: A Road Trip Through America's Most Radical Idea","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0374537011\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Reece, Erik\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\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?Rather 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. Utopia Drive 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.\"  an engaging exploration -- and example -- of the fruitful tunnel-visions of dreamers turned doers.\" - Publishers Weekly\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51536422994208,"sku":"NEW0374537011","price":26.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/81P5MJDrdbL.jpg?v=1777414750","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/utopia-drive-a-road-trip-through-americas-most-radical-idea-0374537011","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}