Visions Utopia by John Egerton
Visionaries of all ages and places have pursued Utopias, dreaming impossible dreams of starting over in new communities fashioned more closely to their ideals. In Visions of Utopia, John Egerton traces the fascinating history of the experimental communities founded by such groups in Tennessee. He focuses in particular on three extraordinary colonies of the 19th century, each of them widely known in its time: Nashoba, and interracial settlement near Memphis in 1825; Rugby, an English cooperative community on the Cumberland Plateau in 1880; and Ruskin, a socialist community in Dickson County in 1894. John Egerton is a native Southerner – A Georgian by birth, a Kentuckian in his childhood and youth, a Floridian during the early 1960’s, and a Tennessean since 1965. He is a grandson of one of the English colonists who started the Rugby settlement in 1880. As a journalist and author, he has written articles on a variety of subjects for more than twenty magazines, and has published two books about the South: A Mind to Stay Here (1970) and The Americanization of Dixie (1974).
Egerton, John: - John Egerton was a professional South-watcher for over half a century. Beginning in high school in the 1950s, through two years in the U.S. Army, five years earning two college degrees, five more as a college news bureau reporter, six as a magazine writer, and for the past thirty-five years as an independent journalist and author, he seldom strayed far from his life's work: following the social and culture, political and economic trends that forever have made the American South the unique place that it is, for better and worse. Until the publication of Ali Dubyiah and the Forty Thieves, all his publishing writing, including more than fifteen books, had been classified as nonfiction. He called this book a fable ... a parable ... a cautionary tale in the genre of political science-fiction, and he claims that he did not so much author it as synthesize it from hundreds of sources, compile it, and become by default the one to present it to the reading public. Fables don't have authors. They're found, heard, passed down.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780870492136 |
| ISBN 10 | 0870492136 |
| Title | Visions Utopia |
| Author | John Egerton |
| Series | Three Star Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Tennessee Press |
| Year published | 1977-10-30 |
| Number of pages | 104 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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