The Modern Utopian: Alternative Communities of the '60s and '70s

By Richard Fairfield, Timothy Miller

Categories: History, Politics & Social Sciences

This book collects material from The Modern Utopian, a magazine that documented communes and alternative communities in the 1960s and 1970s. Editor Richard Fairfield visited communities across America, from rural farms to urban groups, and reported on how they lived, worked, shared property and handled sex, drugs and conflict. Timothy Miller adds an introduction placing them in the history of American utopian movements.

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• Shane Parrish: “A quirky and often interesting look at the alternative communities of the 60s and 70s. Receiving less attention than the drugs, sex, and rock and roll, they helped define the era.”