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Utopias on Puget Sound, 1885-1915 (Paperback, 1995 Edition)
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Utopias on Puget Sound, 1885-1915 (Paperback, 1995 Edition)
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Postmaster General James A Farley's famous toast "to the
forty-seven states and the soviet of Washington" introduces and
sets the tone for this study of Washington State radicalism. The
state's colorful reputation for radical movements was established
in the 1920s and 1930s by free speech fights, strikes, strong labor
organizations, and woman suffrage reforms. Charles LeWarne finds
the roots of this radicalism in the communitarian experiments of
the late nineteenth century. Through analyses of several of these
experiments, LeWarne demonstrates that the influence of a coterie
of liberals and radicals centered on Puget Sound in such
communities as Home, Burley, Freeland, Equality, and Port Angeles
was felt in the state long after the "utopias" they came to
colonize had ceased to exist. Probably the most famous of the
experiments was Home Colony on Joe's Bay near Tacoma. From a
nucleus of three families, Home grew to over two hundred residents
and lasted for more than twenty years. Its reputation for anarchism
and flamboyance contributed to a jail sentence conviction for one
editor of the Home newspaper for publishing an editorial called
"The Nude and the Prudes." Readers interested in current social
movements and lifestyles will find many enlightening parallels with
recent communal attempts, particularly the rejection of traditional
values and the belief in a perfectible world. Whatever the
differences within individual colonies, the communitarian ideal has
certain general characteristics that find their way into each of
these attempts to form a perfect society. Historians will welcome
this treatment of an important part of the social and cultural
history of the area. The book contains a mine of previously
scattered information on the subject. It is a delightful footnote
to the history of the Puget Sound region.
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