Experimental Americans: Celo and Utopian Community in the Twentieth Century

by George L. Hicks

From colonial times to the present, the United States has been home to a steady stream of utopian experimental communities. In Experimental Americans, George L. Hicks takes us inside one of the longer-lived of such communities, Celo Community in western North Carolina, to explore the dynamics of intentional communities in America.

Founded in 1937 by Arthur Morgan, first chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority, Celo (pronounced see-lo)...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252026616
• ISBN13: 9780252026614
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"