A libertarian walks into a bear the utopian plot to liberate an American town (and some bears)
"Once upon a time, a group of libertarians got together and hatched the Free Town Project, a plan to take over an American town and completely eliminate its government. In 2004, Grafton, NH, a barely populated settlement with one paved road, turned that plan into reality. Public funding for pretty m...
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PublicAffairs, Hachette Book Group,
2020.
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| 245 | 1 | 2 | |a A libertarian walks into a bear : |b the utopian plot to liberate an American town (and some bears) / |c Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling. |
| 250 | |a First edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York, NY : |b PublicAffairs, Hachette Book Group, |c 2020. | |
| 264 | 4 | |c Ã2020 | |
| 300 | |a viii, 274 pages ; |c 25 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a A feline feeding -- A taxing tradition -- The logical libertarian -- A quartet of colonists -- A rousing response -- The converted caretaker -- The blackness of the bear -- The scrappy survivalist -- The animal admirers -- Fanning freedom -- The principled pastor -- A battle with bears -- Unlocking utopia -- A history of heat -- The pastor purplifies -- The campfire clash -- A deluge of doughnuts -- The survivalists struggle -- A bureaucracy of bears -- The caretakers confined -- The hidden hitchhiker -- The pastor's plan -- A bear's belligerence -- A huddle of hunters -- The assault's aftermath -- A pressing of poachers -- The pastor is pushed -- A neighbor annoyed -- The pastor's price -- A propagation of prerogative -- The respectable riot -- An experiment ends -- A denouncement of doughnuts -- A jeopardous journey -- The freedoms forgotten. | |
| 520 | |a "Once upon a time, a group of libertarians got together and hatched the Free Town Project, a plan to take over an American town and completely eliminate its government. In 2004, Grafton, NH, a barely populated settlement with one paved road, turned that plan into reality. Public funding for pretty much everything shrank: the fire department, the library, the schoolhouse. State and federal laws didn't disappear, but they got quieter: meek suggestions barely heard in the town's thick wilderness. The bears, on the other hand, were increasingly visible. Grafton's freedom-loving citizens ignored hunting laws and regulations on food disposal. They built a tent city, in an effort to get off the grid. And with a large and growing local bear population, conflict became inevitable. A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear is both a screwball comedy and the story of a radically American commitment to freedom. Full of colorful characters, puns and jokes, and one large social experiment, it is a quintessentially American story, a bearing of our national soul"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Decentralization in government |z New Hampshire |z Grafton. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Human-bear encounters |z New Hampshire |z Grafton. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Grafton (N.H.) |x History. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Grafton (N.H.) |x Politics and government. | |
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