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Trying Home: The Rise and Fall of an Anarchist Utopia on Puget Sound
Justin Wadland
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Description for Trying Home: The Rise and Fall of an Anarchist Utopia on Puget Sound
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
The true story of an anarchist colony on a remote Puget Sound peninsula, Trying Home traces the history of Home, Washington, from its founding in 1896 to its dissolution amid bitter infighting in 1921.
As a practical experiment in anarchism, Home offered its participants a rare degree of freedom and tolerance in the Gilded Age, but the community also became notorious to the outside world for its open rejection of contemporary values. Using a series of linked narratives, Trying Home reveals the stories of the iconoclastic individuals who lived in Home, among them Lois Waisbrooker, an advocate of women’s ... Read more
The true story of an anarchist colony on a remote Puget Sound peninsula, Trying Home traces the history of Home, Washington, from its founding in 1896 to its dissolution amid bitter infighting in 1921.
As a practical experiment in anarchism, Home offered its participants a rare degree of freedom and tolerance in the Gilded Age, but the community also became notorious to the outside world for its open rejection of contemporary values. Using a series of linked narratives, Trying Home reveals the stories of the iconoclastic individuals who lived in Home, among them Lois Waisbrooker, an advocate of women’s ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Oregon State University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Corvallis, OR, United States
ISBN
9780870717420
SKU
V9780870717420
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About Justin Wadland
Justin Wadland works as a librarian at the University of Washington Tacoma Library, USA. He holds an MLIS from the University of Washington and an MFA in Creative Writing from Pacific Lutheran University. His reviews and creative writing have appeared in Rain Taxi Review of Books, The Believer, Crab Creek Review, and other publications.
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