num_pages: 444
description: "A fascinating, half-forgotten segment of our history is the story of the experimental communes which sprang up all over America in the late 1700's and throughout the 19th century. Religious or secular, the prophets of each commune had the basic idea of pooling labor and goods."
language: English
title: Escape to Utopia: The Communal Movement in America
publisher: Hastings House Publishers