Heaven Is a Place on Earth
Subtitle: Searching for an American Utopia
By: by Adrian Shirk
Publisher: Counterpoint
Published: 2022
Place of publication: Berkeley, California, USA
Language: eng
Format: ebook
ISBN-13: 9781640093317
Copyright date: 2022
First sentence: Amber, Laura, and I are driving through the back roads just outside of Nashville, away from Percy Priest Lake, singing along to Belinda Carlisle’s 1987 ballad, “Heaven Is a Place on Earth.”
Table of contents: label: 1
title: GENRE; title: utopianotes: cruising; title: The Utopianotes; title: utopianotes: white men; title: Utopia, the Bronx; title: utopianotes: Robert Moses’s grave; title: A Brief History of American Utopianism; title: utopianotes: North American Phalanx; title: Fellow Travelers on the Road to Nowhere; title: utopianotes: Mount Lebanon Shaker Community; title: Living; title: utopianotes: Gospel Flat Farm; title: How to Start a Society; title: utopianotes: Webster Café; label: 2
title: COMMUNE; title: utopianotes: Salt Lake City Temple Grounds; title: Living; title: utopianotes: minutes from a meeting; title: The Bruderhof; title: utopianotes: The Aurora Colony; title: The Ancestors; title: utopianotes: Lost Valley Intentional Community; title: The Big Muddy Ranch; title: utopianotes: St. Jude’s Day; title: Living; title: utopianotes: Adjunct Flophouse; title: The Simple Way; title: utopianotes: Benincasa; title: The Farm; title: utopianotes: earthships; title: The Flesh Failures (Let the Sunshine In); title: utopianotes: Portland Night High School; label: 3
title: HEAVEN; title: utopianotes: Garden of Happiness; title: Living; title: utopianotes: Woman Town; title: What’s Heaven Got to Do with It?; title: utopianotes: Northeast Association of Education and Industry; title: Odd Fellows at the Rockland Palace; title: utopianotes: Eleanor’s Farm; title: Divine Upstate; title: utopianotes: “Heaven Is a Place on Earth,” music video dir. by Diane Keaton; label: 4
title: THE GARDEN & THE CITY; title: utopianotes: Woodbine; title: The Catskills; title: utopianotes: Yellow Springs, Ohio; title: At Least I Will Die Free; title: utopianotes: Waffle House; title: Gate Hill Cooperative; title: utopianotes: the Sou’wester; title: Living; title: utopianotes: The Mutual Aid Society; title: The Beginning and the End; title: utopianotes: New Day Womyn and Femme-of-Center Retreat; title: Living; title: utopianotes: Annunciation Church; title: Acknowledgments; title: Bibliography