{"product_id":"2940170829088","title":"Utopia Drive: A Road Trip Through America's Most Radical Idea","description":"For 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. Where did we-here, in the land of Jeffersonian optimism and better tomorrows-go wrong?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRather 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. \u003ci\u003eUtopia Drive\u003c\/i\u003e 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.","brand":"Tantor Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47100025700592,"sku":"2940170829088","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170829088_p0.jpg?v=1763718808","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170829088","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}