The Quest for Utopia in Twentieth-Century America 1900-1960 - Timothy Miller (1998).pdf

Booknews
The first volume of a two-volume study of intentional communities in the US during the 20th century. Miller (religious studies, U. of Kansas belies the assertion that the period was virtually devoid of communes. After reviewing older groups that were operating until the turn of the century, he provides a decade-by- decade account of dozens of new groups up to the outbreak of hippyism. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Charles P. LeWarne
Even readers familiar with twentieth-century communitarianism will be astonished at the numerous, diverse communities Miller has uncovered and described, and no one is better qualified or more adept at recounting their histories. This valuable book leaves the reader awaiting the next volume which will continue the account through the active sixties to century's end.
— Nova Religio, The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions