Title
Back to the Land: The Enduring Dream of SelfSufficiency in Modern America (Studies in American Thought and Culture),Used
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For many, going back to the land brings to mind the 1960s and 1970shippie communes and the Summer of Love, The Whole Earth Catalog and Mother Earth News. More recently, the movement has reemerged in a new enthusiasm for locally produced food and more sustainable energy paths. But these latest backtothelanders are part of a much larger story. Americans have been dreaming of returning to the land ever since they started to leave it. In Back to the Land, Dona Brown explores the history of this recurring impulse. ?Backtothelanders have often been viewed as nostalgic escapists or romantic naturelovers. But their own words reveal a more complex story. In such projects as Gustav Stickleys Craftsman Farms, Frank Lloyd Wrights Broadacre City, and Helen and Scott Nearings quest for the good life, Brown finds that the return to the farm has meant less a goingbackwards than a goingforwards, a way to meet the challenges of the modern era. Progressive reformers pushed for homesteading to help impoverished workers get out of unhealthy urban slums. Depressionera backtothelanders, wary of the centralizing power of the New Deal, embraced a new third way politics of decentralism and regionalism. Later still, the movement merged with environmentalism. To understand Americans response to these backtotheland ideas, Brown turns to the fan letters of ordinary readersretired teachers and overworked clerks, recent immigrants and single women. In seeking their rural roots, Brown argues, Americans have striven above all for the independence and selfsufficiency they associate with the agrarian ideal.Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the American Association of School Librarians
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