Beyond the Revolution: A History of American Thought from Paine to PragmatismBy William H. GoetzmannBasic, 399 pages, $35
In 1851, in the forests of Long Island, Josiah Warren and Stephen Pearl Andrews founded a community dedicated to individualism and free love. They named it Modern Times and it flowered, for a period, attracting an array of converts to match the broader, motley population of the new republic. But in 1857, Modern Times collapsed, mirroring the fate of other utopian ventures...
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