The founder of the Oneida Community surveys the many attempts to build communal societies in nineteenth-century America, from Robert Owen’s New Harmony and Frances Wright’s Nashoba to Brook Farm, Hopedale and the Fourierist phalanxes. He sets out the facts of each experiment, often in its members’ own words, and then asks why so many failed.
A first-hand chronicle of American utopian experiments by one of their most famous practitioners. Download the free EPUB.