PDF-(READ)-Paradise Now: The Story of American Utopianism

For readers of Jill Lepore Joseph J Ellis and Tony Horwitz comes a lively thoughtprovoking intellectual history of the golden age of American utopianismand the bold revolutionary and eccentric visions for the future put forward by five of historys most influential utopian movements In the wake of the Enlightenment and the onset of industrialism a generation of dreamers took it upon themselves to confront the messiness and injustice of a rapidly changing world To our eyes the utopian communities that took root in America in the nineteenth century may seem ambitious to the point of delusion but they attracted members willing to dedicate their lives to creating a new social order and to asking the bold question What should the future look like In Paradise Now Chris Jennings tells the story of five interrelated utopian movements revealing their relevance both to their time and to our own Here is Mother Ann Lee the prophet of the Shakers who grew up in newly industrialized Manchester Englandand would come to build a quiet but fierce religious tradition on the opposite side of the Atlantic Even as the society she founded spread across the United States the Welsh industrialist Robert Owen came to the Indiana frontier to build an egalitarian rationalist utopia he called the New Moral World A decade later followers of the French visionary Charles Fourier blanketed America with colonies devoted to inaugurating a new millennium of pleasure and fraternity Meanwhile the French radical Étienne Cabet sailed to Texas with hopes of establishing a communist paradise dedicated to ideals that would be echoed in the next century And in New Yorks Oneida Community a brilliant Vermonter named John Humphrey Noyes set about creating a new society in which the human spirit could finally be perfected in the image of God Over time these movements fell apart and the national mood that had inspired them was drowned out by the dream of westward expansion and the waking nightmare of the Civil War Their most galvanizing ideas however lived on and their audacity has influenced countless political movements since Their stories remain an inspiration for everyone who seeks to build a better world for all who ask What should the future look likePraise for Paradise NowUncommonly smart and beautifully written a triumph of scholarship and narration five standalone community studies and a coherent often spellbinding history of the United States during its tumultuous first halfcentury Although never less than evenhanded and sometimes deliciously wry Jennings writes with obvious affection for his subjects To read Paradise Now is to be dazzled humbled and occasionally flabbergasted by the amount of energy and talent sacrificed at utopias altarThe New York Times Book Review Writing an impartial respectful account of these philanthropies and follies is no small task but Mr Jennings largely pulls it off with insight and aplomb Indulgently sympathetic to the utopian impulse in general he tells a good story His explanations of the various reformist credos are patient thoughtprovoking and entertainingThe Wall Street Journal As a tour guide Jennings is thoughtful engaging and witty in the right doses He makes the subject his own with fresh eyes and a crisp narrative rich with detail In the end Jennings writes the communards disregard for the world as it exists sealed their fate But in revisiting their stories he makes a compelling case that our presentday deficit of imagination could be similarly fatedSan Francisco Chronicle. known for its snowfall. 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