A libertarian walks into a bear : the utopian plot to liberate an American town (and some bears) / Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9781541788510 :
- ISBN: 1541788516 :
- Physical Description: viii, 274 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : PublicAffairs, 2020.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-274). |
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Castlegar Campus Library | F 44 G75 H66 2020 (Text) | B001680982 | General | Volume hold | Available | - |